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BONE! The Great Cow Race
Jeff Smith

This book is about the more recently famed graphic novel character, “BONE”, in yet another of his crazy adventures. As the sequel to his first novel, BONE the great cow race rejoins the Bone cousins as they are trying to return to their hometown Boneville. As it begins Bone and his infamous cousins are planning to return home after their visit to Thorn and Gran’ma Ben in Barrelhaven. But before they hit the road, Fone Bone- one of Bone’s more troublesome cousins- shakes things up in one last attempt at getting rich quick scheme in the town’s annual Great Cow Race. As predicted, his plans don’t seem to work out as well as expected. Throughout the novel Foney’s plans seem to spiral more and more out of control, making their return home more of a dream than ever. At the end it indicates the continuation in a third book… but I won’t ruin it, you’ll have to actually read it to find out.

The Main Characters are:
Bone- The Main character, the protagonist is the logical of the three cousins. He is always trying to fix and help those and the things around him. He is easily likable, and is easily made jealous.
Fone Bone- He is the conniving one of the 3 cousins. He is always working new plans to get rich or get through something the easy. His plans usually fail, creating more drama than the plan was whorth.
Smiley Bone- He is the somewhat happy going, fun, clueless sidekick to Fone Bone. He helps Fone with all of his crazy schemes, because he is completely unaware that of what Fone is actually up to.
Thorn- A human girl who bone met in Barrelhaven with Gran’ma, he fell in love with her.
Gran’ma- The one who bone is staying with, winner of previous cow races, and friend to nearly everyone in town.
The Main theme could be several different things depending on how it is interpreted. One of the main themes however could have been the consequences of Scheming. Throughout the whole novel the story and plot is played around Fone’s scheme to rig the cow race. This theme is important because it is showing how lying and scheming to get through life the easy way isn’t always the best. Fone tries to get rich quick, and all it gets him is a few bruises, anger and a whole lot of punishment. His scheme doesn’t even work. So the theme of the consequences of scheming is really a main point of the novel. The main conflict was the great cow race and who would win. The conflict between Fone rigging the race and fixing the whole town to make money off of them was extremely important. My favorite part of this novel was when it showed the hairy beastie things in the great cow race. They were really weird creatures and were sort of funny. You should only read this book if you like randomness. If you’re into dark, intense, action-based, superhero type books… this is not your book. But if you’re up for some lighthearted random comical entertainment, give this book a try.