To make it to-infinity worse, he's worried sick about what humans are doing to the planet, and his mother is worried sick about him. Or why his parents can't live together - after all, when other mate-for-life animals have a fight, it's not like one of them just packs his bags and leaves the country. What he doesn't know, though, is why his grandfather died, or why waste-of-flesh Lyle always picks on him. He knows that if you wet a dog's food with your saliva and he refuses to eat it then he's top dog, and he knows that dolphins can sleep half a brain at a time. Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (Canada and Caribbean region) A Globe and Mail Top Five First Fiction Title of 2009 Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (Canada and Caribbean region) Nine-year-old Phineas William Walsh has an encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world.
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