From the award-winning author of Dovey Coe comes a powerful (School Library Journal) tale of the friendship between a black girl and a white boy and the prejudices they must overcome in segregated Kentucky as they try to solve the mystery surrounding a lonely old dog.Eleven-year-old Callie is fearless, stubborn, and a little nosy. So when she sees an old yellow dog wandering around town by itself, you can bet shes going to figure out who he belongs to. But when her sleuthing leads her to cross paths with a white boy named Wendell who wants to help, the segregated town doesnt take too kindly to their budding friendship. Meanwhile, a nearly invisible boy named Jim is stuck in a cabin in the woods. Hes lost his dog, but cant remember exactly when his pups disappeared. When his companion, a little boy named Thomas, whos been invisible much longer than he, explains that they are ghosts, the two must figure out why they cant seem to cross the river to the other side just yet And as Callie and Wendells search for the old dog brings them closer and closer to the cabin in the woods, the simmering prejudices of the townspeople boil over.

 

 

This book is aimed at children at US 4th grade-8th grade.

This book has been graded for interest at 9-13 years.

There are 224 pages in this book. This book was published in 2016 by Simon & Schuster .

Frances O Roark Dowell is the editor and co-founder of Dream/Girl, an arts magazine for girls and has been Poet in Residence at Duke University. She has had dozens of poems published in literary journals, and is the author of two previous children's novels, Dovey Coe and Where I'd Like to Be. She lives in North Carolina with her husband and two sons.