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- Buddy
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- Author: Paul Musgrove
- Reviewer: Rita Porter
- Publisher: Zumaya Publications (2004)
- ISBN: 1894869893
- Rating: * * * * Quills
- www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/1894869893/scriquil
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- The gap in the Sawhenny holds the population of Gills Mill in a grip of fear that something might be let loose on them once again. Jonathan Steele has helped awaken a creature the town has dreaded for over a hundred years.
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- The unsuspecting Fairchilde family, arrive into Gills Mill for their summer vacation. Henry has chosen this spot to finish up his research for the book about the last Indians. Davey isn’t happy to be moved away from his friends and summer plans to attend to his stepfather. Vicki, a teacher, wants to take the summer to do the things she enjoys and pamper her family, although upon arrival, Vicki has a premonition about bad things happening outside the house.
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- The townspeople are downright rude to outsiders, afraid they will stir up trouble. They keep to themselves and protect their own. Davey meets most of them on his first trip to the store, finding the one person close to his age in this town: Alaine. They become close through the summer, sharing secrets about the folks in the town, the bizarre things that happen around the gap and the strange creatures that abound in the area. Rescuing a puppy, whom Davey names Buddy, causes unknown things to start happening; things a sane mind has trouble grasping.
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- Paul Musgrove manages to pull his audience into the mystery of the unknown and fantasy mix, letting them draw their own images of the beastly creatures written about within these pages. Places and time meld well within the storyline. Musgrove’s main character is a dog, and the interaction between the main and the supportive characters remains unforced. Davey and the dog Buddy build a lasting tie as a boy and his dog in reality often would, with the wild side of Buddy not suffering as a tame beast might.
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