O'Connor, Barbara.

How to steal a dog : a novel / by Barbara O'Connor. - 1st ed. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. - 170 p. ; 22 cm.

"Frances Foster books."

Wilson's Junior High School, August 2007 School Library Journal starred, May 2007 Book Links (A.L.A.), March 2007 Publisher's Weekly, April 2007 Booklist, March 2007 Horn Book, May 2007 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), June 2007 Kirkus Review, March 2007

Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer.

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Homeless persons--Fiction.
Family problems--Fiction.
Conduct of life--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
Siblings--Fiction.
Dogs--Fiction.


North Carolina--Fiction.

PZ7.O217 / How 2007

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