Bray, L. (2009). Going Bovine. New York, NY: Delacorte Books
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Summary: Going Bovine has a character named Cameron Smith who desires to navigate through it all, as fast as he can. He wants everything to be done quickly his school, work, and even with his family because nobody has ever expected much of him. But, when his hallucinations betray him by telling him he will die soon, everything changes. Cameron is diagnosed with mad-cow disease and soon after that he is hospitalized. During his hospital stay he meets Dulcie, a pink-haired fairy who is part of his hallucinations. This fairy “Dulcie” informs Cameron that there is a cure, but they have to search for it. Their search includes video games with an obsessed dwarf and a Norse god that is trapped in a gnome’s body. Cameron traveling across America earns his cure by overpowering the wizard with the trumpet.
Strengths:
This
novel Going Bovine unique twisted
characters make this story meet the mental/emotional development criteria. Cameron not knowing the difference between
his hallucinations makes his illness overwhelmingly overcoming. The recommended readers for this book are
grades 8 and up.
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