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Going Bovine

Average rating
4 out of 5
Based on 3,099 Ratings and 1,189 Reviews

Book Description
Can Cameron find what he's looking for?

All 16-year-old Cameron wants is to get through high school-and life in general-with a minimum of effort. It's not a lot to ask. But that's before he's given some bad news: he's sick and he's going to die. Which totally sucks. Hope arrives in the winged form of Dulcie, a loopy punk angel/possible hallucination with a bad sugar habit. She tells Cam the... More
Book Information
PublisherListening Library
BindingAudio CD (9 editions)
Reading LevelYoung Adults
# of Pages12
ISBN-100739385577
ISBN-13978-0739385579
Publication Date09/22/2009
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About Libba Bray (Author) : Libba Bray is a published author of children's books and young adult books. Some of the published credits of Libba Bray include Great and Terrible Beauty, A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels (Un... more
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About Erik Davies (Reader) : Erik Davies is credited in young adult books. A published credit of Erik Davies is Something Rotten.
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Reader Comments
10/5/2011 Grier Cooper said:
16-year-old Cameron, slacker by day (and night) finds out he has Mad Cow Disease... the news sends him on a mad quest, armed with two unlikely compatriots- a dwarf and a talking yard gnome. Along the way he meets up with a punk guardian angel named Dulcinea who becomes guide and love interest. As hi... more

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8/11/2011 Grier Cooper said:
16-year-old Cameron doesn't have much of a plan beyond just slipping by in life. But life throws a curveball, and he's diagnosed with Mad Cow Disease, an incurable illness. However, he embarks on a quest to save himself with an unlikely team of cohorts including a sugar-addicted, hot-looking punk an... more

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6/22/2010 Lynndy Bennett said: Crazy compelling deliciously irreverent
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4/13/2010 Mary Sandford said: This irreverent fantasy has so many red herrings that seem to be there as sensationalism and way to many coincidences that were explained and covered up with the instructions to look for random clues I found it lacking altogether.
tags: I read

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3/18/2010 Debbie Dadey said: Not used to all the cussing so it's definitely for older. I had trouble getting through the beginning, but found the ending sad and satisfying.

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2/27/2010 Keli Sipperley tagged as: Inspired me, I recommend

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2/8/2010 Kathy Spielman

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9/26/2009 Tracy O'Daniel

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9/22/2009 Chelsea H tagged as: I recommend, I read

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