While the results are somewhat mixed, it's an entertaining ride. And it works! Annabelle then sets out on an ambitious boy-training program, using her dog-training book as a guide. One day, she accidentally uses one of the dog-training tips to deal with a pesky boy. Though she tries to resist this blatant bribe, Annabelle is smitten, and spends considerable effort training her dog. To soften the blow of the move (and perhaps to distract Annabelle), her mom and Ted get her an untrained young puppy. There, she quickly finds a set of girlfriends, but finds herself mercilessly tormented by the middle school boys. When Annabelle's mother moves them in with her boyfriend (Ted, aka Dweeble), Annabelle has to leave her apartment, her friends, and her all-girls elementary school to live in the suburbs and start 6th grade at Birchwood Middle School. Review: In Boys are Dogs, Leslie Margolis captures the thought processes of an 11-year-old girl who not only doesn't like boys, but finds them a source of stress, revulsion, and terror. It's the only thing you can do" in my yearbook in eighth grade (what possessed me to ask him to write in my yearbook I can't recall).
And the boy who wrote "Keep up your studying.
And the boy I disliked so much, for reasons I can't now recall, that I put thumbtacks on his chair in homeroom (sorry!). But Leslie Margolis' Boys Are Dogs made me remember the boy who threw my yearbook out of the window in junior high (in the rain, no less).
Background: I don't have a particularly good memory.
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