How to Steal a Dog

How to Steal a Dog

By Barbara O'Connor

70 ratings 71 reviews 124 followers
Interest LevelReading LevelReading A-ZATOSWord Count
Grades 4 - 8Grades 3 - 5T434585

Half of me was thinking, Georgina, don't do this. Stealing a dog is just plain wrong. The other half of me was thinking, Georgina, you're in a bad fix and you got to do whatever it takes to get yourself out of it.

Georgina Hayes is desperate. Ever since her father left and they were evicted from their apartment, her family has been living in their car. With her mama juggling two jobs and trying to make enough money to find a place to live, Georgina is stuck looking after her younger brother, Toby. And she has her heart set on improving their situation. When Georgina spots a missing-dog poster with a reward of five hundred dollars, the solution to all her problems suddenly seems within reach. All she has to do is "borrow" the right dog and its owners are sure to offer a reward. What happens next is the last thing she expected.

With unmistakable sympathy, Barbara O'Connor tells the story of a young girl struggling to see what's right when everything else seems wrong.

How to Steal a Dog is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Publisher: Square Fish
Published on 4/27/2009
Binding: Paperback

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great book i want to read it again

IT WAS AMAZING!!! some parts, i didn't get but besides that, like i said IT WAS AMAZING!!! I KNOW YOU'LL LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Orcapod Orcapod

Sounds neat

buttercup buttercup

sounds great!

very good but verry easy 4 me

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It sounds like a good book

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this book is awesome!!!!!!!

Would you steal a dog to get money? To live in a better place not a car. If you would, were would you put it, what food would you bring it, who would you tell, when would you take it back? This girl is not smart she dose't think about that. she wants a better life, wouldn't you?

so farther the book is wonderful it was sad in the beginning of the story it started to be funny when the boy and his brother try to steal a dog and he try to write a book on how to steal a dog.

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