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When Mack came back / by Brad Strickland.
LIBRA - Tehon Collection PZ7.S9166 Wh 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Strickland, Brad.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dogs--Juvenile fiction.
- Dogs.
- Fathers and sons--Juvenile fiction.
- Fathers and sons.
- Farm life--Juvenile fiction.
- Farm life.
- History.
- United States--History--1933-1945--Juvenile fiction.
- United States.
- Dogs--Fiction.
- Fathers and sons--Fiction.
- Farm life--Fiction.
- United States--History--1933-1945--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 6 unnumbered pages, 105 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, [2000]
- Summary:
- When his older brother leaves the family farm in order to join the army in 1943, ten-year-old Maury remains behind to deal with his angry father and to care for Ben's injured puppy. Set in World War II Georgia, this is the story of 10-year-old Maury & the injured black dog he finds in the woods. A howl in the woods on a cold winter day changes Maury Painter's life. Tangled within the thorny vines a dog lies whimpering. It's 1943, and times are tough and lean on his family's Georgia farm. As Maury struggles to fill the place of his absent brother, who's off fighting in the war, he is determined to keep the dog he calls Mack. Mack is there for him, steadfast and true. But his father insists that the dog is just another mouth to feed ... Brad Strickland has been hailed by critics for his spine-tingling books in the John Bellairs series. Now this talented author reaches into his Georgia roots to craft a moving story about a spirited boy whose devotion to a beloved pet gives him the courage he needs to make his own way.
- Notes:
- "Designed by Nancy R. Leo-Kelly"--t.p. verso.
- "The text of this book is set in Weiss."
- "Jacket illustration copyright 2000 by John Thompson."--Dust jacket.
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0803724985
- 9780803724983
- OCLC:
- 41885697
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