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Publisher: HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS
Edition: 2008 Hardback, 250 pages
ISBN: 9780061139345
Item: AN329
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Summary: The acclaimed author of "Small White Scar" returns with a heartwarming, heartbreaking story of a girl, a dog, and the friendship that saves them both.
This story of an agoraphobic girl and a claustrophobic dog and how they slowly move one another toward hope could have been maudlin, but Nuzum's pacing and spare, poetic narrative create something quite wonderful.
Target Age Group: 08 to 12
Price: $15.99
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Expanded Description:
The acclaimed author of "Small White Scar" returns with a heartwarming, heartbreaking story of a girl, a dog, and the friendship that saves them both.
Nuzum's second novel, following A Small White Scar (Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins, 2006), is tightly focused on two human characters: eleven-year-old Dessa Dean and her father. Dessa has been traumatized after barely surviving the mountain snowstorm that killed her mother. Now afraid to leave the cabin because of her frostbitten ears-and worse, her terrible memories of nearly freezing to death beside her mother-Dessa spends long, lonely days indoors while her father ekes out a hunting and trapping subsistence. Along comes a large, hungry dog who appreciates Dessa's handouts but fears being trapped in the small cabin. Despite the winter cold, Dessa leaves the door open, so the wary dog can come and go as she pleases. With the cabin so welcoming and the smells of Dessa's Christmas dinner wafting through the clear mountain air, a fourth, very large character breaks her hibernation and lumbers into the cabin, giving the dog a chance to defend her new home and Dessa a reason to finally go outdoors again.
This story of an agoraphobic girl and a claustrophobic dog and how they slowly move one another toward hope could have been maudlin, but Nuzum's pacing and spare, poetic narrative create something quite wonderful.
Target Age Group: 08 to 12
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