Posts Tagged ‘dogs’
Looking For Marco Polo
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Looking For Marco Polo
Random House, 2009
Fiction
ISBN: 0375833218
304 pages
Random House, 2009
Fiction
ISBN: 0375833218
304 pages
Synopsis
Eleven-year-old Mark’s anthropologist father has disappeared in the Gobi desert while tracing Marco Polo’s ancient route from Venice to China. His mother decides they must go to Venice to petition the agency that sent Mark’s father to send out a search party. Anxious about his father and upset about spending Christmas away from home, Mark gets a bad asthma attack in the middle of the night. …
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The Underneath
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The Underneath
Atheneum, 2008
Fiction
ISBN-10: 1416950583
320 pages
Newbery Award Nominee
The National Book Awards Nominee
Atheneum, 2008
Fiction
ISBN-10: 1416950583
320 pages
Newbery Award Nominee
The National Book Awards Nominee
Synopsis
A pregnant calico cat is discarded to fend for herself, and as she is making a new home in the backwaters of the bayou, she hears the lonely howls of a hound dog. Compelled to act against her normal nature, she finds the dog and moves in with him in The Underneath, the space beneath the porch of the house of Gar Face. …
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