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ALVIN HO: ALLERGIC TO GIRLS, SCHOOL, AND OTHER SCARY THINGS Lenore Look; illustrated by LeUyen Pham Hardcover | Schwartz & Wade | 978-0-375-83914-6 | July 2008 | $15.99 | Ages 6-10 Hardcover Library Binding | Schwartz & Wade | 978-0-375-93914-3 | July 2008 | $18.99 | Ages 6-10

Poor Alvin! He’s allergic to just about everything. He takes his PDK (Personal Disaster Kit) everywhere with him, just in case. He makes sure he has emergency plans and survival rules for any situation. Another interesting thing about Alvin is that he talks at home, but he doesn’t talk at school. He has to work hard to learn how to be a gentleman (like his dad) and to make friends. (This is hard to do when you don’t talk!) He still manages to get into a lot of crazy predicaments, including cursing in Shakespeare to his therapist. (If you’ve never heard of cursing in Shakespeare, you’ll have to read Alvin Ho just for this lesson alone!) There’s a chuckle on every page in Alvin Ho.

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Prepared by Jill Webb, Children's Librarian, Farmington Community Library, Farmington, Michigan

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