The Canine Connection: Stories about Dogs and People
No. of pages 128
Published: 2008
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Betsy Hearne has skillfully crafted twelve short stories highlighting the special relationships that humans and dogs can share. Varied in tone and setting, her collection will make readers smile, cry, and keep turning the pages to see what happens in each new miniworld of real and imagined encounters.
This book has been graded for interest at 12+ years.
There are 128 pages in this book. This is a short story book. This book was published 2008 by Simon & Schuster .
Betsy Hearne is the author of several books for children, including Wishes, Kisses, and Pigs (a Child magazine Best Book of 2001), Eliza's Dog, and Listening for Leroy (a Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young Children). She was formerly the editor of the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, and she now teaches literature and storytelling at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Ms. Hearne lives with her family in Urbana, Illinois.
This book has the following chapters: Contents
lab
restaurant
room 313
cargo
the drive
a grave situation
fiona and tim
the nose
nameless creek
the canine connection
the boss
bones
afterword
about the author