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A Dog Called Homeless
By LEAN, Sarah
- ISBN
- 978-0-06-212220-9 978-0-06-212222-3
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Katherine Tegen
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on December 1, 2012 | Grades 5-up
Gr 4–7—Cally Fisher hasn't spoken for 31 days. As she explains in the prologue, "Talking doesn't always make things happen, however much you want it to." She knows that talking won't bring her mother back to life or keep her dad from selling their home in exchange for a small apartment so what's the point in saying anything. But when her mother appears one day wearing a bright...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2012
No one will talk about Cally’s dead mother, but Cally is the sort of person who likes to discuss what she’s feeling. When she sees her mother’s ghost and tries to share the happiness that encounter gives her, it only makes her father upset. When her fifth grade classroom enrolls in a "sponsored silence" to benefit a hospice, she volunteers to be silent for a day. The silence, surpr...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
