Notes From A Liar and Her Dog

The book Notes From a Liar and her Dog by Gennifer Choldenko is about a 12-yr old girl named Antonia (Ant) McPherson. Ant doesn't like her family at all especially her sisters, Kate and Elizabeth. She says that her parents aren't really her parents, she even keeps a journal where she writes to her "real parents" asking when they will come to get her. Ant's dad is always changing jobs so they keep moving all the time. Where they live now is where they have been living the longest(for two years). She has moved about 13 times in her life. Her dad promised them that they wouldn't move from where they are now. Ant doesn't like her family so she is always lying , her two best friends are her dog Pistachio and Harrison. Her favorite teacher is Ms. Carol which they call "Just Carol" she works at the Zoo also on weekends so she asked her boss if Ant and Harrison could volunteer there and she said yes. From volunteering at the Zoo, talking to "Just Carol " and winning Math-a-thon, Ant starts to tell the truth. Towards the end of the book Ant's dad announces that he will be getting a new job in Connecticut Ant does not want to move neither do her sister, they all have good reasons why they shouldn't move, in the end they all convince their dad that they shouldn't move to Connecticut, so they end up staying in California, Ant starts to feel more into the family than she did in the beginning of the book.

Character- The main character in this book is Ant, Ant always lies to her family a quote that she says a lot and is even on the back of the book is "You cant waste the truth on people who won't understand?" She even says that the only member in her family that is actually related to her is her dog. Ant thinks that she does not belong in the family because her nickname is little brown acorn and her sisters are Your Highness Elizabeth and Katherine the Great, she feels left out sort of because her parents didn't name her after a princess too.

Thoughts about the book- I thought that this was the BEST book that I have ever read, it was really good, I felt bad because Antonia felt that she didn't belong in the family, she always thought that she was adopted because her parents thought that her two sisters were special and she wasn't. This book was very interesting, in the beginning it seemed kind of boring but then once i started to read it more it got even better.

Reading Strategies used- the reading strategy i used was mental image i used this reading strategy because i could see a picture in my head of what was going on in the book i thought that this was a very good reading strategy

Author Information- The author of the book Notes From A Liar And her Dog is Gennifer Choldenko. Gennifer Choldenko knew since she was six years old that she would become writer.

Her father had a passion for writing. Some books she has written are Moonstruck: The True Story of the Cow Who Jumped Over the Moon, Al Capone Does My Shirts and many othe more books.