White Fang

Daughter: Your a sled driver just carrying a dead man back to his family. Easy right? Well no. Every night no matter how you tie up your dogs, one some how escapes and follows a young wolf, to their death. You are low on dogs and you still have a along way to go and you have only 3 shots left in your gun. Your partner goes out to try to scare away the large pack of wolves with only 3 shots. You here them go off and your partner never comes back. Just at the last minutes of life when most of the lights you put around your self die out and your really tired you get rescued. How about that. Starts off kinda cool but the story isn't about the sled driver but the young she-wolf. She goes off and finds a mate named One-Eye. She has a few pups and only one survives. He grows up. Some Indians find her and the pup. Your mother is a tamed wolf and One-Eye is a dog. Now your a half breed. He grows up in the Indian camp with a master that beats him and doesn't love him but he stays with this cruel man. Then he is soled to a white man that only uses him for dog fights! How totally horrible. After he becomes famous and is fighting his hardest opponent a small bull dog. I seens the be the end of White fang but a mining engineer comes and rescues him. And turns him into a sled dog. At the end he goes to California with all of these animals and a sheep dog. She absolutely hates him for being a wolf but some how in the end there are puppies.

Dad: So, the daughter wrote a book, what's left for me to say? I'll say this: White Fang is all about loyalty. Most of the people/dogs/wolves White Fang meets can't figure this out. Once he meets the mining engineer, everything changes. The man understands loyalty. White Fang understands the man. It's an awesome, insightful tale and a really fun read

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

Daughter: When you go onto a ship would you ever in your right mind think about becoming part of the crew?? Would you betray the crew for the captain, then betray the captain for the crew?? What would you do if there was a mutiny whose side would you take the crews or the captains?? Would you stand by and watch as an old crew member was being flogged to death for what you did? At the end of the trip would you stand up to your father and tell him the truth and keep at it until he believed you?? What if you were accused of doing something that you didn't do but you don't know who did it would you take your undeserved punishment?

Dad: The great thing about this book is that it forces you to think about what is really important, especially when what you are experiencing doesn't match what you have learned up to this point in your short life. What if you, like 13 year old Charlotte, were taught that you were a proper young lady, you should not associate with people "beneath" you (especially uncouth crew members and black men) and you should respect your "betters," like the gentleman captain? But during your trip, you are amazed to discover that things aren't always what they seem and you were forced to make tough choices. I enjoyed this book, because I believe Charlotte rose to the occasion. The only frustrating bit for me was that her family was unable to perceive her growth and wished she would shrink back to a proper young lady.