{"id":36026,"date":"2019-08-26T22:48:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T02:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=36026"},"modified":"2019-08-26T22:48:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T02:48:02","slug":"review-of-to-night-owl-from-dogfish-by-holly-goldberg-sloan-meg-wolitzer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=36026","title":{"rendered":"Review of To Night Owl from Dogfish, by Holly Goldberg Sloan & Meg Wolitzer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>To Night Owl from Dogfish<\/em><\/p>\n

by Holly Goldberg Sloan & Meg Wolitzer<\/p>\n

Dial Books for Young Readers, 2019. 295 pages.
\nReview written March 17, 2019, from a library book<\/p>\n

To Night Owl from Dogfish<\/em> is a sort of reverse parent trap story, or at least that\u2019s how it begins. The story is told mostly in the form of emails between two girls, Bett Devlin and Avery Bloom. Here\u2019s an excerpt from the first one from Bett to Avery with the subject line: you don\u2019t know me.<\/p>\n

So this is awkward but I\u2019m just going to say it. Your dad + my dad met 3 months ago in Chicago at a \u201cbuilding expo,\u201d which was at the downtown Marriott. I\u2019m not going to explain how I know but THEY ARE NOW A COUPLE.<\/p>\n

That isn\u2019t my business, only it IS my business because my dad wants to send me to a place called CIGI this summer. <\/p>\n

I never heard of CIGI. The website says: Challenge Influence Guide Inspire.<\/p>\n

That was cut + pasted. Those words are how they got the name. CIGI is a SUMMER PROGRAM IN MICHIGAN FOR \u201cINQUISITIVE TWEENS \u2018N\u2019 TEENS AGES 10-15.\u201d<\/p>\n

You could already be bored reading this email. But guess what? YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO GO TO CIGI, TOO.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At first, Avery doesn\u2019t believe it. She\u2019s always had her dad to herself. But when the girls figure out that their fathers are indeed planning to send them to camp to get to know each other and they can\u2019t thwart that plan, they can at least refuse to speak to each other and absolutely not become friends. Perhaps they can even break up their dads.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, their dads are planning to take a trip together, and ride motorcycles across China. The girls feel abandoned. But at least that gives them an excuse to bring ipads to camp. They can keep emailing each other yet keep their pact not to talk to each other and absolutely not to become friends.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s just say that absolutely nothing goes according to plan. In fact, hijinks ensue.<\/p>\n

The two authors weren\u2019t going for realistic in this book \u2013 but they did write a book that\u2019s a whole lot of fun. This is one that goes quickly and you find yourself wanting to read just one more email.<\/p>\n

hollygoldbergsloan.com<\/a>
\nmegwolitzer.com<\/a>
\npenguin.com\/middle-grade<\/a><\/p>\n

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Source: This review is based on a library book from Fairfax County Public Library.<\/p>\n

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