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A Home for Dakota
By Jan Zita Grover
Henry Bergh Children's Book Award Winner: Fiction: Companion Animals Honor 2008.
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The ASPCA Henry Bergh Book Award honors books that promote the humane ethic of compassion and respect for all living things. |
Dog No. 241 lives in a crate in a cold, dark barn that is stacked with hundreds of other caged dogs in a puppy mill breeding operation. She has never known human companionship, exercise, or decent care. One night, rescuers arrive and take her and the other dogs away to lead new and happier lives. Soon, despite her fears, she finds herself in a warm, secure foster home, being bathed and groomed and loved by a young woman named Emma. But then a new challenge arrives in the person of a young girl, Sweetie, who is recovering from a misfortune as deep as Dakota's own. With Emma's reassurances, Dakota goes to her forever home to become Sweetie's true partner in recovery.
Hardcover, ages 4-8.
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