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Nick
Mar 20, 2019 rated it really liked it
Shelves: juvenile-fiction
This was both a tough book to read and a tough book to put down. It reminded me a bit of some tear-jerker relationship books for older teens, but the characters in this one were younger, 12 and 13. The dog absolutely stole the show, intelligent and adorable even on paper, but the relationships in the book were what made the story difficult. Ben's childhood in foster care was glossed over, because it is his survival of that which is important to the story. The gradual falling apart of his adoptiv ...more
Beth
Nov 02, 2016 marked it as to-read
Shelves: books-for-my-kid
Jennette Neville
May 02, 2019 rated it really liked it