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When Mr Dog Bites by Brian Conaghan (view source)
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|reviewer=Jill Murphy
|genre=Teens
|summary=Funny and and inspiring coming-of-age story whose first -person narrator is a boy with Tourette's Syndrome. You won't forget Dylan Mint in a month of F*CKING SUNDAYS. YOU D*CKSTABBER!
|rating=5
|buy=Yes
|pages=384
|publisher=Bloomsbury
|date=January 2014
|isbn=140884253X
I loved Dylan. I loved his mum. I loved his best bud Amir. I loved Michelle Stroppy Malloy. I loved Dylan's incredibly honest and incredibly politically incorrect use of language ''outside'' of his Tourette's - it's meaning, not words, that do the hurting. Coming-of-age stories are always great to read - funny and heartwarming - and, shock, horror, people with Tourette's come of age, too. I won't forget Dylan Mint in a very long time. The temptation to swear in CAPITAL LETTERS here is great, but I'll leave that to the summary on your right.
I hardly need to mention [[The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon]] but you might not know about [[The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd]]. You might also enjoy [[My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher]]. We also have a review of [[The Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Brian Conaghan]].
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