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In the second person, an omniscient narrator addresses an exuberant brown-haired girl with a blond younger brother. She's determined to adopt a pig, so this step-by-step guide helps them acquire one with "potential"--and convince their mom to let them keep it. Colored-pencil, watercolor, and ink illustrations amp up the mayhem in this goofy, tongue-in-cheek manual, laid out over six chapters ideal for newly independent readers.