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Mh herlong books5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Li’l T finds Buddy when his family accidentally hits the stray dog while driving to church. In Herlong’s “Buddy,” the relationship between Tyrone “Li’l T” Roberts and his dog, Buddy, is the backdrop to a larger story of surviving Hurricane Katrina and rebuilding. But they have such a bad reputation! I liked that contrast.” The contrast led to “Malcolm at Midnight.” “I read all these incredible facts about rats - they can fall from tremendous heights and be fine, they can squeeze through spaces the size of a quarter, they can gnaw through cement and lead and glass - and it struck me that rats really were quite amazing. “Malcolm came to me as I was researching animals for a nonfiction series I was working on,” said Beck. When the Academy’s iguana leader is kidnapped, Malcolm is a prime suspect because rats have a horrible reputation. Other classroom pets are part of the Midnight Academy, a secret society that works to keep the nutters (schoolchildren) safe. He’s a pet at McKenna School, and he revels in the attention. Malcolm, the title character in Beck’s book, is a class rat - the four-legged kind with a tail. ![]() Herlong, was selected by voters in Grades 6 through 8. Beck was selected by voters in Grades 3 through 5. ![]() ![]() Stories that feature animals again take center stage in the books selected by Kansas schoolchildren as the winners of the 2015 William Allen White Children’s Book Awards. ![]()
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