HOME FOR GODDESSES AND DOGS, A

<p><div style="outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box !important; float: left; width: 630px; margin-bottom: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"></div></p><div style="outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box !important; float: left; width: 630px; margin-bottom: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><p style="outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box !important; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: 300; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 12px;"><strong style="outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box !important; font-weight: 700;">A unique masterpiece<span>&nbsp;</span></strong><strong style="outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box !important; font-weight: 700;">about loss, love, and the world’s best bad dog,<span>&nbsp;</span></strong><strong style="outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box !important; font-weight: 700;">from award winner Leslie Connor, author of the National Book Award&nbsp;finalist&nbsp;<em style="outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box !important; font-style: italic;">The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle</em>.</strong></p><p style="outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box !important; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: 300; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 12px;">This novel sings about loss and love and finding joy in new friendships and a loving family, along with the world’s best bad dog. An uplifting middle grade novel about recovery featuring strong female characters, an adorable dog, and the girl who comes to love him.</p><p style="outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box !important; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: 300; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 12px;">It’s a life-altering New Year for thirteen-year-old Lydia when she uproots to a Connecticut farm to live with her aunt following her mother’s death.</p><p style="outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box !important; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: 300; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 12px;">Aunt Brat and her jovial wife, Eileen, and their ancient live-in landlord, Elloroy, are welcoming—and a little quirky. Lydia’s struggle for a sense of belonging in her new family is highlighted when the women adopt a big yellow dog just days after the girl’s arrival.</p><p style="outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box !important; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: 300; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 12px;">Wasn’t one rescue enough</p><p style="outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box !important; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: 300; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 12px;">Lydia is not a dog person—and this one is trouble! He is mistrustful and slinky. He pees in the house, escapes into the woods, and barks at things unseen. His new owners begin to guess about his unknown past.</p><p style="outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box !important; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: 300; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 12px;">Meanwhile, Lydia doesn’t want to be difficult—and she does not mean to keep secrets—but there are things she’s not telling...</p><p style="outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box !important; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: 300; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 12px;">Like why the box of “paper stuff” she keeps under her bed is so important...&nbsp;</p><p style="outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box !important; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: 300; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 12px;">And why that hole in the wall behind a poster in her room is getting bigger...</p><p style="outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box !important; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: 300; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 12px;">And why something she took from the big yellow dog just might be the key to unraveling his mysterious past—but at what cost</p><p style="outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box !important; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: 300; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding-bottom: 12px;">* Junior Library Guild Selection *<br style="outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box !important;"></p></div>