A Home for Goddesses and DogsAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 3 March 2022
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A unique masterpiece about loss, love, and the worldâ?Ts best bad dog, from award winner Leslie Connor, author of the National Book Award finalist The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle, now available in paperback. This novel sings about loss and love and finding joy in new friendships and a loving family, along with the worldâ?Ts best bad dog. An uplifting middle grade novel about recovery featuring strong female characters, an adorable dog, and the girl who comes to love him. Itâ?Ts a life-altering New Year for thirteen-year-old Lydia when she uproots to a Connecticut farm to live with her aunt following her motherâ?Ts death. Aunt Brat and her jovial wife, Eileen, and their ancient live-in landlord, Elloroy, are welcomingâ?"and a little quirky. Lydiaâ?Ts struggle for a sense of belonging in her new family is highlighted when the women adopt a big yellow dog just days after the girlâ?Ts arrival. Wasnâ?Tt one rescue enough?Lydia is not a dog personâ?"and this one is trouble! He is mistrustful and slinky. He pees in the house, escapes into the woods, and barks at things unseen. His new owners begin to guess about his unknown past. Meanwhile, Lydia doesnâ?Tt want to be difficultâ?"and she does not mean to keep secretsâ?"but there are things sheâ?Ts not telling... Like why the box of â?opaper stuffâ?? she keeps under her bed is so important... And why that hole in the wall behind a poster in her room is getting bigger... And why something she took from the big yellow dog just might be the key to unraveling his mysterious pastâ?"but at what cost? * Junior Library Guild Selection *
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