INTERMEDIATE FICTION
Engle, Margarita

Mountain Dog

(4) 4-6 Illustrated by Olga Ivanov & Aleksey Ivanov. His mother gone to prison, Tony is sent to live with a great-uncle he's never met, a forest ranger who lives in the Sierra Nevadas with his search-and-rescue dog, Gabe. There's a good story here, but the verse-novel format (with narration by Tony and Gabe) isn't quite right, and the illustrations are at tonal odds with the text.

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