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Kadohata, Cynthia

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408 pp. | Atheneum/Dlouhy | February, 2018 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4814-4661-7 $16.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-4814-4663-1
(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Maurizio Zorat. Eleven-year-old Conor MacRae has two passions: ice hockey and his dog, Sinbad, who has been diagnosed with cancer. Sinbad's expensive medical treatment eats into the limited money that also must fund Conor's hockey participation, so Conor earns money by washing cars throughout his Southern California neighborhood. The first-person, present-tense narrative juxtaposes Conor's enthusiastic hockey commentary with tender, character-focused interactions with his cop single father and his dog.
Reviewer: Jonathan Hunt | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2018

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