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title: "Cracker!: The Best Dog in Vietnam"
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# Cracker!: The Best Dog in Vietnam

**Brand:** cynthia kadohata
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- **What is this?** Cracker!: The Best Dog in Vietnam by cynthia kadohata
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Cracker!: The Best Dog in Vietnam

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Great book!
  

*by K***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 9, 2023*

It has been a while since I read this book but my boyfriend recommended it to me at the time and I am not disappointed in this purchase at all, I absolutely loved it!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    An excellent historical novel about dogs used in Vietnam!
  

*by J***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 29, 2012*

Some books the reader opens and drags through a few pages, still uninspired. "Grrr! For I am the all-powerful Cracker!" First sentence in "Cracker: The Best Dog in Vietnam" hooks older children. This German Shepherd is flipping a dead bird in the air, abandons it when she sees a live mouse! Then Willie calls her and she bounds home.It's an enticing beginning for children, 9-12, but also suitable to draw in adults who work with children and want to find good books for them or adults who have children and want to know what quality of books they are reading. This "Cracker" is a good one: It was nominated for the Louisiana Young Readers Choice in 2010 for Best Book in the grades 6-8 category, although I find it suitable for mature 4th and 5th grade readers.It's a simple story to start: Boy wants Dog, Boy finds Dog, Boy must give up Dog. Now what happens to dog placed in the local pound? It's Vietnam time and the army needs military dogs to sniff out hidden landmines, bombs, and Viet Cong. Some dogs are one-man (or -boy) dogs and resist any new owner. However, the young recruit just out of high school is special, though he is told he is not special by his counselor. His brilliant older sister is "a specialist"--Rick is described as a "generalist." It's a label he fights throughout his duty tour in Nam.He does become Cracker's "owner" by winning her respect. They become as one by the time they are sent to Vietnam, along with the other units in his squad. Rick wants Cracker to be "the best dog in Vietnam." You know in books like this that, if she doesn't become the best dog, then she will one of the best. I'll not spoil it for you.So, that's a short summary of the story, but it's not the story that sold me on this novel. It is the brilliant talent of the author, Cynthia Kadohata, for her uncanny ability to get into that dog's head and convince the reader that she is truly giving Cracker's thoughts and emotions. The one scene in which Cracker is separated from the unit and is lost in the jungle and seemingly cannot find her way back had me sobbing with her dismay and panic and desperation.Not only does Kadohata provide insight into the dog but into Rick and the entire concept of training a dog to become one with the handler and then that team with the other soldiers in the unit. I was so amazed at this incredible sense of being right there in the story with men and dogs. It's this kind of rare story telling that must be put into the hands of children to keep them reading. As a librarian for children ages 3-13, I can tell you that reading desire begins to taper about age 11 and practically dies by grade 7. Only a handful of seventh and eighth graders are still interested in reading. Yes, I know, children that age become part of hives and swarm as one unit and exclude all else from their habitation.Actually, this book is better directed at grades 4 and 5 and maybe 6 instead of 6-8. I think it was placed in 6-8 because of war content. There is a bit of bloody battle carnage, but it's not a Scorcese type of carnage, more Spielburg--mild and tolerable for children.Frankly, I felt joy in reading this book because of the man/dog relationship and the wonderful sensitivity the writer shows in revealing Cracker's feelings. The thought that continued to run in my mind was how Kadohata was able to make Cracker's feelings so authentic? I didn't find a single thing that Cracker did untrue to the nature of a dog, or, in fact, any details about Vietnam. This is how she did it: hours and hours of interviews, both in person, by email, by telephone, with Vietnam veterans, with dog handlers, both military and civilian, and especially with the handler on whom she based this story. I was duly impressed!In addition to providing authenticity, her research also revealed this history of military dogs. In wars through Vietnam, dogs were thought of as equipment and just left in that country or given to the native population. Today they are commissioned out of service just like their handlers!Now, which book won in 2010 for Grades 6-8 in the LYRC? Wouldn't you just know that "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" did!?And that book is read by the younger children, not so much by that middle school crowd. Go figure.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    great Book
  

*by N***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 26, 2022*

My elementary school-aged boys both lived this book. They have listened to the audiobook repeatedly, and have read it several times. I finally decided to go ahead and read it myself, just to see what they were so worked up about. I was surprised that I found it not just mildly entertaining, but very enjoyable. The plot is not complicated, but the story is told convincingly from the point of view of different characters, whether a young man just coming into adulthood, or a little boy who has to give up his beloved dog, or the dog herself. The story is gripping in places, and entertaining throughout.

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*Last updated: 2026-02-22*