How to Steal a Dog

How to Steal a Dog

By Barbara O'Connor

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Grades 4 - 8Grades 3 - 5T434585

Half of me was thinking, Georgina, don't do this. Stealing a dog is just plain wrong. The other half of me was thinking, Georgina, you're in a bad fix and you got to do whatever it takes to get yourself out of it.

Georgina Hayes is desperate. Ever since her father left and they were evicted from their apartment, her family has been living in their car. With her mama juggling two jobs and trying to make enough money to find a place to live, Georgina is stuck looking after her younger brother, Toby. And she has her heart set on improving their situation. When Georgina spots a missing-dog poster with a reward of five hundred dollars, the solution to all her problems suddenly seems within reach. All she has to do is "borrow" the right dog and its owners are sure to offer a reward. What happens next is the last thing she expected.

With unmistakable sympathy, Barbara O'Connor tells the story of a young girl struggling to see what's right when everything else seems wrong.

How to Steal a Dog is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Publisher: Square Fish
Published on 4/27/2009
Binding: Paperback

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I liked the idea of this book but the actual book was terribly boring. It's about a girl who lives in her car and then she wants to get a home so she steals a dog and waits for the owner to put up a reward sign so she can claim the dog. This doesn't go exactly as planned though.......

This book is super, super, super sad! This book has a loving dog, a family that lives in a car, and...well... a bike riding, three fingered hobo

I LOVE THIS BOOK!!!! I read it and it is really good and funny.READ IT!!!!

I read this a long time ago. Half of me was thinking, don’t do this. Stealing a dog is just plain wrong.

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i go to school with a preson with the same name

this book is very funny

I read it. I THINK STEALING A DOG IS VERY CREEPY! (Mean?)

I read this book during school for a "book" club sorta thing not as good as you think it will be though

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