Pasture Bedtime: Charlie's Rules # 1

Series: Orca Echoes
Publication Date: 30 Jun. 2021
Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN 9781459825888

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    Eleven-year-old Charlie Dembinski likes to keep his life organized and quiet. This is a challenge when you live on a farm where your mother runs a veterinary clinic for the local livestock, neighbors' pets and sometimes rescued wildlife.

    To complicate Charlie's orderly life even further, his mother hires a bookkeeper to live on the farm who brings along her daughter, Amy Ma. And Amy is anything but quiet! Her constant questions and attempts to spend time with Charlie really bother him, and he doesn't understand why the adults seem to like her so much.

    But when a neighbor's beloved dog gets sick with a mysterious illness, Charlie realizes that Amy's outgoing approach might not be all that bad.

    This is the first book in the Charlie's Rules series.

    Information

    Book Type: Early Readers
    Age Group: 6 years +
    Traffic Lights: Green
    Class Novel: No
    Good Reads Rating: 4.5/5
    Literary Rating: 4/5

    Review

    Charlie's life is peaceful and ordered. His favourite thing is making wooden doghouses, which he plans meticulously. But when he's in the middle of screwing his latest house together, a strange girl wanders into the workshop: Amy, the daughter of the new assistant and bookkeeper at Charlie's mother's veterinary practice.

    Erratic, emotional, and friendly, Amy is Charlie's opposite in every way. When Charlie's mother asks Amy to help Charlie on a visit to a sick dog, he's not happy. They bond slowly over their sadness at a woman who gives her new puppy to a shelter rather than caring for him, and from discovering just how a cow can end up in a tree--by falling down a steep slope!

    Amy shows that she's compassionate and a good listener--just what Dorothy needs when her dog is so sick. Charlie's businesslike and blunt manner gets the job done, but he often says things that people don't want to hear.

    As they're getting ready to put the dog down, Amy discovers ticks in his fur. The source of the problem discovered, they're able to return the dog to his owner--and even convince her to take the puppy on, to bring some energy into an old dog's life!

    This is a charming story of an odd-couple friendship, strengthened by a shared love of animals. Both Amy and Charlie have their strengths, and they work best when they listen to each other and help one another.

    Peppered throughout with animal puns and illustrations, this book is an easy and lighthearted read.

    Themes

    animals, veterinarian, shelters, problem-solving, planning, friendship, empathy and compassion

    Content Notes

    Not applicable.

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