Saturday, October 13th, 2007...8:40 am
Toby Tucker Dodging the Donkey Doo by Val Wilding
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Toby Tucker has lived with foster parents Don and Evie Allen for three weeks and figures he may at last have found a family. Toby knows nothing about who he is and where he comes from. All he has to connect him to his past is an old chest full of torn pieces of paper and a note, addressed to him from someone named Gee, saying that the bits of paper are his family tree and that, if he can fit them together, he will learn who he is and when he came from.
When Toby matches Niko with leon, he becomes his ancestor, a young donkey driver named Nikoleon who lived in ancient Greece. As Niko, he gets a job leading his donkey across Greece to attend the Olympic games, and knows that, if he can keep his five donkeys from misbehaving, put up with the spoilt Chrysanthe’s nasty tricks, and please her rich grandfather Andreas, he may just be able to save Niko’s family from financial disaster!
Dodging the Donkey Doo, the second book of Toby Tucker’s adventures, will appear to readers from Grade 4, especially the boys!
FernFolio Editor
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