Cause And Effect Of Winn Dixie

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It is a winner because the story has real life messages that readers Can learn from. It is an inspirational book for young readers and can teach how to not judge a book by its cover. This book is a short way to teach people how to take care of their dog and how to treat people correctly with respect.Most of the time opal and her dog is disrespectful this makes people laugh. This is a great first novel it joins the book without any villain. The book makes you want to read more with the charm of the charcters like winn dixie. It also hold the reader in with exiting events like when th elirbraian thought winn dixie was a bear. BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE is a warmhearted, lovely combination of hilarity (in one scene Winn-Dixie captures an unhurt mouse

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