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    Pigboy
    Pigboy
    Pigboy
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    Pigboy

    By Vicki Grant

    3.5/5

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    Dan is not sure he'll survive the boring field trip to a remote heritage farm.

    How could a place with no running water, telephone or electricity be anything but dull? The farmer knows nothing about farming and seems angry about having to conduct the tour. And what's with his tattoo? The teacher requests a private word with the farmer and then mysteriously disappears. Dan decides to investigate and uncovers a deadly plan. But will he be able to get help in time to save his teacher and the rest of his class?

    Also available in French.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOrca Book Publishers
    Release dateSep 1, 2006
    ISBN9781554696901
    Pigboy
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    Vicki Grant

    VICKI GRANT left her career in advertising and television to write her first novel, The Puppet Wrangler, in 2004. She has written many books for young readers, including Not Suitable for Family Viewing, winner of the Red Maple Award, Quid Pro Quo, winner of the Author Ellis Award for Best Juvenile Crime Fiction, Betsy Wickwire’s Dirty Secret, Pig Boy and B Negative. She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Web: vickigrant.com Twitter: @VickiGrantYA Instagram: @vicki_grantya  

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    • 5/5
      BLURB: Dan is not sure he'll survive the boring field trip to a remote heritage farm. How could a place with no running water, telephone or electricity be anything but dull? The farmer knows nothing about farming and is angry about having to conduct the tour. And what's with his tattoo? The teacher requests a private word with the farmer and then mysteriously disappears. After a messy attack of allergies, Dan is excused to find a tissue. He sneaks back to the school bus and discovers the driver and teacher have been bound and gagged. The farmer is really an escaped convict with nasty plans. Will Dan be able to find help in time?


      RATING: 5 stars for Pigboy By: Vicki Grant
      STARTED: APRIL 24,2014
      FINISHED: APRIL 24,2014


      REVIEW: Pigboy is great for anyone that enjoys suspense,humor, and action this book includes a wide variety of all three of them as it progresses. I enjoyed this book because it told the life saving story of Dan Hogg who saved all of his friends, and teachers from a criminal that just broke out of jail! I was on my feet the whole time waiting to see what would happen! I was hooked, and pulled in on this book as soon as I started reading it, and it is a very short book, but better that most I have read lately! I thought I would not like Pigboy as much by looking at the cover, and the title but when I read the synopsis I was like WOW, and I read it in one day! A very addicting short story book that you probably cannot put down!
    • 4/5
      Even though the book is short, it's still really good, its even suspenseful at times. I think it's a good book for everyone. 4/5 KC (9th grade) I chose this book because a friend suggested it to me.
    • 4/5
      A quick good read. Great story of the underdog saving the day and being who you are no matter what. Exciting and funny at the same time.
    • 3/5
      "Pigboy" is another one of those bullying scenarios/book. Even though the plot/storyline was predictable, the details and the what the boy did was different. To be honest, before i read the book, i had another thought of what it was going to be about but my prediction turned out to be totally different. I would also recommand this book because it isn't a "love story" but one that makes you anxious and wonder what the boy might do next.
    • 2/5
      Short, light story about an unlucky boy who everyone hates (including himself). That is until one day his class takes a field trip to a farm and things get way out of hand. Dan - that would be pigboy to you - shows his true colors and learns a little about himself and others in the process.
    • 5/5
      Dan Hogg is upset when he learns that his regular teacher is too ill to accompany the class on their field trip to a pig farm. The class goes anyway, with a supply teacher, and is in for quite a surprise when Mr van Wart doesn't appear to be too interested in them and isn't very welcoming at all. Later, Dan Hogg, the class victim of bullies everywhere ends up saving the day. A reluctant reader would probably like this book a lot. Silver Birch
    • 3/5
      An excellent choice for reluctant readers, or readers who read at a few grade levels below their actual grade. Recommended for readers ages 12-16? I am not sure who the target audience of YA Hi-Lo books is, but this is a great choice for anyone looking for a title in this genre.

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    Pigboy - Vicki Grant

    Chapter One

    A farm.

    No. It was worse than that.

    A heritage farm.

    A big, fat, stinking—and I do mean stinking— heritage farm. No running water. No electricity. No pop machine.

    I couldn’t believe it.

    The other class went to a television studio for their field trip. They got to look through the cameras and talk to the announcers. One kid even got to read the weather forecast on the news. How cool is that?

    Our class, on the other hand, was going to a stupid farm somewhere out in the sticks.

    Is that fair?

    I don’t know why I was even surprised. What else would you expect from a guy like Mr. Benvie? There’s no way he’d actually do something fun. He’s a big Mr. Do-gooder. He spent his entire summer building a well in this village in Africa.

    Good for him.

    I mean it. I’m not just saying it.

    It’s really nice all those people aren’t dying anymore. It’s great they have water to grow their crops and feed their animals and stuff like that.

    But that doesn’t mean that farming is actually interesting.

    That doesn’t mean that anybody around here actually cares where food comes from.

    That doesn’t mean that any normal teenager would actually want to waste an entire day at some stupid boring farm.

    Mr. Benvie’s a teacher. He spends his whole life with kids. He should have known that.

    I mean, what’s wrong with the guy? Clearly, any field trip involving manure is not right for a bunch of fourteen-year-olds.

    But manure wasn’t even the worst part of the stupid field trip.

    The worst part was that the farmer grows pigs. And pigs are also called hogs. And there’s this poor guy in our class called Dan Hogg who everybody hated.

    I don’t know why exactly. Maybe it was his hair. Or his teeth. Or his glasses. Or the fact that he answered Mr. Benvie’s questions as if he might actually have a brain. Usually he just tried to sort of disappear, but it never worked. Idiots like Shane Coolen or Tyler March wouldn’t take their eyes off him. They wouldn’t shut up about him. They wouldn’t quit laughing at him.

    That’s what really bugged me. Mr. Benvie saw what was going on. If he was such a good guy, why did he go and make it worse? He was all concerned about these people who live a million miles away. But he didn’t seem to mind torturing some poor kid in his own class by telling everyone that we’re going to see "how chickens, cows and hogs are traditionally raised."

    That was too much for Shane. He yelled, Visiting some of your relatives, are we, Dan? I always wanted to meet your mother.

    Ha-ha-ha.

    Everyone cracked up. Mr. Benvie said, All right, that’s enough, but I could tell he had trouble not laughing too.

    I hated Shane Coolen.

    I hated stupid field trips.

    But, most of all, I hated being Dan Hogg.

    Chapter Two

    The day of the field trip, Mr. Benvie had a stomach bug. I was so happy when I found out.

    I figured there was no way we’d be going to that stupid farm now. I couldn’t believe my luck. I’d been up all night worrying about how I’d survive seven hours of hog jokes. I practically jumped for joy when the principal said Mr. Benvie would be out for a couple of days. Maybe, I thought, by the time he got better, he’d have come to his senses. Maybe he’d let us do something else instead. Visit the tire factory or see one of those boring history movies or go to the fire station. Anything but that stupid farm and its pigpens.

    For a while, it looked like I might actually make it through the day.

    Then there was a knock at the door, and the principal introduced our substitute teacher. I saw the rubber boots she was wearing. I just knew what was coming next. The principal put on this big phony smile and went, Ms. Creaser is delighted to be able to accompany 9B on your exciting trip to historic Windmill Farm!

    He blabbed on about how the farmer had come from Holland to raise these special old-fashioned animals. Apparently it was all very fascinating—but I wasn’t listening.

    All I could think was, I knew it.

    Why did I even hope the trip would

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