Fun, action packed, intelligent and right on the mark for kids who devour books. About friendship and betrayal, about living in the country where everybody knows everybody, about having a bossy big sister, and about loving animals more than anything ...
Fun, action packed, intelligent and right on the mark for kids who devour books. About friendship and betrayal, about living in the country where everybody knows everybody, about having a bossy big sister, and about loving animals more than anything else.
Five difficult things right now:
1) That my best friend wants to be with the popular girls in class all the time.
2) That my big sister believes some little kid should take over my horse.
3) That I will never have a boyfriend.
4) Horrible Marcus in my class who always has to say mean things or hit me on the arm or in my stomach.
5) That we live in the country and it’s like, a thousand miles away from everywhere.
Tilda lives in the country and loves animals. She and her best friend Thea each got a rabbit a few years ago and, from pure boredom, they started a smaller rabbit farm. Now their parents have forbidden them to breed the animals if they
don’t find owners for the rabbits first.
This proves easier said than done when Thea’s rabbit has seven babies in a litter. But it doesn’t matter because one of the babies will have completely black fur. Tilda wants it. This time she will really work at taming the rabbit.
Tilda’s parents are not quite as enthusiastic. They believe Tilda has enough animals. Rabbits, fish, birds, a horse and a dog. This is when Tilda hears herself saying those horrible words: “Rocky is the world’s most boring dog. I wish he would die so we could get another dog instead.” She almost faints after she says it. You’re not supposed to wish that someone dies. You just aren’t …
Right on the mark Siri Spont manages to balance humor and seriousness in a masterly way.
Without Animals I’ll Die is the first part in a planned trilogy.
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