Maggie & Oliver, or, A bone of one's own
A dog whose beloved owner has died and an orphaned ten-year-old girl find each other while enduring poverty and homelessness in early-twentieth-century Boston.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Henry Holt,
2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: | A dog whose beloved owner has died and an orphaned ten-year-old girl find each other while enduring poverty and homelessness in early-twentieth-century Boston. |
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| Physical Description: | 181 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780805092943 (hc) : 0805092943 (hc) |
| Author Notes: | Valerie Hobbs is the recipient of the 1999 PEN/Norma Klein Award, a biennial prize that recognizes "an emerging voice of literary merit among American writers of children's fiction." She is the author of young adult and middle-grade novels including Sheep , Defiance , Anything but Ordinary , and The Last Best Days of Summer . She holds a B.A. and an M.A. in English from the University of California at Santa Barbara, where she has taught academic writing. Valerie lives in Santa Barbara, California, with her husband. Jennifer Thermes lives in an old house with her husband and children, three cats, one Dalmatian dog, and countless mice. She is a graduate of the Parsons School of Design. |
