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Short-Listed for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (Canada and Caribbean region)A Globe and Mail Top-Five First Misinformation Name of 2009Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (Canada and Caribbean region)Nine-year-old Phineas Bill Walsh comes with an encyclopedic understanding of the organic world. He knows that if you soaked a dog's food together with your spit and he will not eat it then he's top dog, and he knows that whales may rest half of a mind at the same time. What he does not understand, however, is why his grandpa died, or why waste-of-skin Lyle usually picks on him. Or why his parents can not live together — in the end, when additional partner-for-living creatures possess a battle, it's nothing like one of these only packs his bags and leaves the country.To create it to-infinity worse, he's worried sick about what people are doing to the earth, and his mom is worried sick about him.