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There Is No Dog

Author Meg Rosoff
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Penguin Young Readers | Speak
On sale Jan 24, 2012 | 272 Pages | 9781101550489
Grade 7 & Up
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What if God were a teenaged boy?

In the beginning, Bob created the heavens and the earth and the beasts of the field and the creatures of the sea, and twenty-five million other species (including lots of cute girls). But mostly he prefers eating junk food and leaving his dirty clothes in a heap at the side of his bed.

Every time he falls in love, Earth erupts in natural disasters, and it's usually Bob's beleaguered assistant, Mr. B., who is left cleaning up the mess. So humankind is going to be very sorry indeed that Bob ever ran into a beautiful, completely irresistible girl called Lucy . . .
MEG ROSOFF grew up in a suburb of Boston and moved to London in 1989. She spent fifteen years working in advertising before writing her first YA novel, How I Live Now, which has sold more than a million copies in thirty-six territories. It won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Michael L. Printz Award in the US and was made into a feature film. Her subsequent nine novels have been awarded or shortlisted for, among others, the Carnegie Medal and the National Book Award. She lives in London with her husband, the painter Paul Hamlyn. View titles by Meg Rosoff
"...earns its place among the sharpest-witted tours de force of recent memory." — Kirkus, starred review

"Wildly inventive and laugh-out-loud funny..." — Booklist, starred review

"...there's no denying that Rosoff's writing and sense of humor are a force of nature..." — Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Cheeky and subversive." — Horn Book, starred review

"Rosoff has a good time with her hunky, ne'r-do-well deity . . ." — The Washington Post

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What if God were a teenaged boy?

In the beginning, Bob created the heavens and the earth and the beasts of the field and the creatures of the sea, and twenty-five million other species (including lots of cute girls). But mostly he prefers eating junk food and leaving his dirty clothes in a heap at the side of his bed.

Every time he falls in love, Earth erupts in natural disasters, and it's usually Bob's beleaguered assistant, Mr. B., who is left cleaning up the mess. So humankind is going to be very sorry indeed that Bob ever ran into a beautiful, completely irresistible girl called Lucy . . .

Author

MEG ROSOFF grew up in a suburb of Boston and moved to London in 1989. She spent fifteen years working in advertising before writing her first YA novel, How I Live Now, which has sold more than a million copies in thirty-six territories. It won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Michael L. Printz Award in the US and was made into a feature film. Her subsequent nine novels have been awarded or shortlisted for, among others, the Carnegie Medal and the National Book Award. She lives in London with her husband, the painter Paul Hamlyn. View titles by Meg Rosoff

Praise

"...earns its place among the sharpest-witted tours de force of recent memory." — Kirkus, starred review

"Wildly inventive and laugh-out-loud funny..." — Booklist, starred review

"...there's no denying that Rosoff's writing and sense of humor are a force of nature..." — Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Cheeky and subversive." — Horn Book, starred review

"Rosoff has a good time with her hunky, ne'r-do-well deity . . ." — The Washington Post

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