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 Laney's Book Report By:Grace Lin The Year of the Dog Laney's Second Page 1**.Plot** In the book //__The Year of the Dog__//, the main plot is about a young girl named Pacy, she is the only Chinese girl in her neighborhood. It is the year of the dog ( accordind to the Chinese calender), and that is the year you are supposed to find yourself. She was born in the year of the dragon, and since the dragon and the dog are friends, this is supposed to be her lucky year. Later that year, she meets another Chinese girl and they become best friends. Her name is Melody. They enter a book contest, which means you write and illistruate a book all by yourself. Pacy wins 4th place!!!! Thats when she decides she is going to be an author and illustrator. 3.**Setting** This book took place in the town of Hartford, in the past (it does not tell the time).

3.**Characters**
 * Mom [[image:http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:B29ya75a5xctSM:http://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/content/images/2006/01/23/chinese_zodiac_dog_400x300.gif width="205" height="134" link="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/content/images/2006/01/23/chinese_zodiac_dog_400x300.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/content/image_galleries/chinese_zodiac_gallery.shtml%3F11&h=300&w=400&sz=5&hl=en&start=18&um=1&usg=__lzWSsblcvIoiKf1c5j2Z_M8FHUk=&tbnid=B29ya75a5xctSM:&tbnh=93&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3DThe%2Byear%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bdog%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN"]] [[image:http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:VF8n4zNyFipX5M:http://www.draconian.com/dragons/Images/Chinese%2520Dragons/Chinese-Dragon-Green-25-large.jpg width="212" height="301"]][[image:http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/14660000/14667968.JPG caption="The Book Pacy Wrote"]][[image:http://www.gracelin.com/media/book/activities_dog_horoscope.gif width="199" height="171"]]
 * Dad
 * Lissy
 * Ki-Ki
 * Pacy
 * Melody

4.**Conflict** The conflict is that Pacy cannot find herself, or dosen't know who she is.

5.**Climax** The climax is when Pacy wins the book contest.

6.**Theme** You cannot try to find your talent, you have to let it come naturally to you.

7.**Resolution** Pacy finds who she is, a best friend, and finds out that it dosen't matter what race you are, all that matters is that you care about your friends and family.