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Fight for Life

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Fight for Life

 

Author: Anderson, Laurie Halse

 

Main Characters:Maggie, Gran, Brenna, David , Zoe , and Sunita

 

Setting:Animal Clinic

 

Summary:  This is a story about a girl named Maggie who lives with her grandmother.  Her grandmother is a veterinarian and they have an animal clinic attached to their house.  Maggie loves to help at the clinic but her grandmother (Gran) is worried about her grades in school.  Gran decides that Maggie cannot help in the clinic any more until she brings her grades up.  Gran hires Brenna to do Maggie's chores.  Many dogs come in from a puppy mill.  The dogs are underfed, dehydrated and infected.  Maggie and her friends set out to find the puppy mill and shut it down

 

#14.  11 year old Maggie lives with her grandmother who is a vet at the Wild at Heart animal clinic. Maggie loves working and playing with the dogs that are patients there. There has been a lot of sick dying puppies coming in. The owners claim that they bought it from a man at the farmers market. The puppies are trapped in a puppy mill, where three dogs are piled into one cage,they have not been fed, and they aren't able to go to the bathroom. The man that is selling the puppys don't tell the buyers about their health. So far two dogs at the clinic have died. Maggie and her friends are doing whatever they can to save the pups, and have the man that is abusing them arrested. 

 

#26. The book, Fight for Life was about a girl named Maggie Makenzie who lives with her grandmother, (Gran). Maggie enjoys to help out at the clinic but Gran will not let her volunteer untill her grades inprove and she gets a good grade on the extra credit report. The puppies that go to the clinic are very sick and need as much help as they can get. The man at the puppy mill is not taking care of the sick animals and leaves them in a barn with no food and water. Now it's up to Maggie and her friends to save the sick and abused puppies and close down the puppy mill.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Questions:Please list three questions and answers.  read what has been written already.  Do not duplicate an question.  Please correct or add information to an answer.

 

1. Name two types of dogs Maggie treats.

 

Answer: Black Labs, Colies, Mutts.

 

2. Whose speacilty is cats?

 

Answer: Sunita.

 

3. Who is Maggies cousin?

 

Answer: Zoe.

 

#14

 

1. What kind of dog is Mitzy?

 

Answer: Airedale

 

2.  What does Maggie have to do in order to be able to work at the animal clinic again?

 

Answer: finish an extra credit assignment and bring her grades up.

 

3. What was the name of the dog that died second?

 

Answer: Dinky

 

#26

 

1.Why does Zoey stay at Maggie's house for 3 months?

Answer: because her mother is getting a new job in LA.

 

2. Why does Maggie's friends have to help out in the clinic?

Answer: because Maggie has to improve her grades

 

3. Why does Dinky die?

Answer: because his heart wasn't formed properly and he was dehydrated.

 

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