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    The Fast and the Furriest
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    The Fast and the Furriest

    Written by Andy Behrens

    Narrated by Sean Runnette

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Meet Kevin Pugh, 12-year-old couch potato. Now meet Cromwell, his part beagle, part potato chip dog. Kevin's looking forward to spending his summer doing as little as possible. Unfortunately, Kevin's father, former Chicago Bears star player/super-sports fanatic, Howie Pugh, feels differently. So does Cromwell, who has suddenly and mysteriously developed a fascination with agility competitions: running up seesaws, leaping over hurdles, soaring through hoops (sometimes). If he has to do anything, Kevin would rather do something for newly obsessed Cromwell, but dog agility lessons do not constitute a sport in his father's mind, so football camp it is. Until some well-timed events collide, literally, and soon Kevin's found a way for he and Cromwell to take classes, and the upstart Team Cromwell is born.

    Andy Behrens has written a hilarious novel with a dry-as-dirt protagonist who's constantly tortured by the goings-on around him. It's also a charming story about a boy and his dog, as well as a meaningful and heartfelt look at a relationship between a boy and his father who don't always see eye-to-eye.


    From the Hardcover edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMar 9, 2010
    ISBN9780307707758
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    • 4/5
      The overweight and unathletic son of a famous former football star discovers that his equally fat and lazy dog is unexpectedly--and obsessively--interested in competing in dog agility contests.
    • 3/5
      (From March 2010 SLJ)
      The classic underdog story goes canine. Twelve-year-old Kevin Pugh leads a comfortable couch-potato existence. While Howie Pugh recalls the glory of playing for the Chicago Bears and tries to motivate his son to follow in his footsteps, Kevin is content to leave athletic glory to his younger soccer-playing sister and to limit his own football exposure to the video-game variety. All of this changes, though, on the day that Kevin, flipping through channels, tunes in to the Purina Incredible Dog Challenge just in time to see a terrier shatter the agility course record. Cromwell, a dog as sluggish as his owner, is mesmerized, and begins racing around the basement in his own attempt at agility coursing. The dog’s fascination with racing does not fade, and Kevin halfheartedly enrolls Cromwell in a training program. When he attempts to mention it to his father, Howie dismisses dog agility as something less than a real sport. Although they are incredibly clumsy throughout their weeks of agility training, boy and dog manage to pull off a miraculous win in their first competition, and are suddenly qualified for the agility championship at Chicago’s United Center. The days following are anticlimactic: even after the win, Howie is unimpressed with Kevin’s and Cromwell’s efforts; they are not able to come anywhere close to the time they achieved during the Invitational; and Kevin is feeling like more of a loser than ever. In the nick of time—just as Kevin is ready to walk out of the United Center without competing to avoid completely humiliating himself—his father shows up, announces that he has been wrong and that Kevin is a winner no matter what, and inspires Kevin to get out there with Cromwell and leave the more experienced dogs in the dust yet again. In spite of the clichéd plot and caricaturish secondary characters, Behrens writes with an engaging style that will appeal to both reluctant and seasoned readers. He has created a likeable protagonist, and students will relate to Kevin’s self-deprecating humor. As for Cromwell, unrealistic though his newfound passion and talent for agility might be, his perseverance gives anyone with an unrealized dream a nice little glimmer of hope.
    • 5/5
      The Pugh family is full of characters. Howie is a former Chicago Bears player that loves the fan interactions and radio guest spots that come with former football stardom. Maggie is an organized mom who juggles kids and her husband’s personality. Izzy is a soccer champ in the under 11’s with championship trophies and sports aphorisms out the wazoo. Kevin is part boy, part couch. He’s awful at sports. He’s worse than awful at sports, though oddly enough, he’s a genius at videogame football. Then there is Cromwell is part beagle and part potato chip. No one is sure if he smells like the old basement couch or if the couch smells like Cromwell since he rarely moves off it. Nothing is likely to change about any of this until Cromwell sees a dog agility contest on TV. Suddenly he is running unintentional obstacle courses in the backyard and getting himself stuck halfway through the tire swing. He brings his leash and demands walks. Before he knows what has happened Kevin is working with a trainer at the Paw Patch dog agility school and his best friend has jerseys made for “Team Cromwell” in preparation for the glory and sponsorship deals that are going to come pouring in when Cromwell takes his place in the annals of dog agility history. First they’ve got to get Cromwell to finish one of the courses instead of destroying it. And Kevin has to figure out how to tell his family that he’s more interested in training with Cromwell instead of practicing football.