How to steal a dog

Resource Information

The work How to steal a dog represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Noble County Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

How to steal a dog

Statement of responsibility

a novel by Barbara O'Connor

Title variation

How to steal a dog

Creator

• O'Connor, Barbara
• trueO'Connor, Barbara

Subject

• Dogs -- Fiction
• trueFirst person narratives
• trueGirls
• Homeless persons -- Fiction
• Homeless persons -- Juvenile fiction
• trueHomelessness
• Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
• Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction
• trueMoney-making projects
• trueMoney-making projects for girls
• trueNorth Carolina
• North Carolina -- Fiction
• North Carolina -- Juvenile fiction
• trueRealistic fiction
• trueRight and wrong
• trueSmall towns -- North Carolina
• Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
• Brothers and sisters -- Juvenile fiction
• Conduct of life -- Fiction
• Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
• trueDognapping
• Dogs -- Juvenile fiction
• Dysfunctional families -- Juvenile fiction
• Families -- Fiction
• trueFamily problems
• Family problems -- Fiction
• trueFather-deserted families

Genre

• trueRealistic fiction
• Juvenile fiction
• trueFirst person narratives
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer

Theme

• trueTrouble at home

Storyline

• trueCharacter-driven

Tone

• trueMoving
• trueFunny

Writing style

• trueAttention-grabbing

Award

• Prairie Pasque Children's Book Award (South Dakota), 2010.
• South Carolina Book Award, Children’s Books, 2009.
• Surrey Schools' Book of the Year Award (British Columbia), 2011.
• William Allen White Children's Book Award (Kansas) for Third-Fifth Grade, 2010.
• Young Hoosier Book Award, Intermediate Books, 2011.
• School Library Journal Best Books, 2007.

Cataloging source

DLC

Citation source

• Wilson's Children, October 2007
• Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010
• School Library Journal starred, May 2007
• Book Links (A.L.A.), December 2008
• Horn Book Starred, October 2007
• Book Links-starred, January 2008
• Publisher's Weekly, April 2007
• Booklist, March 2007
• Bulletin (Center for Children's books), June 2007
• Kirkus Review, March 2007

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• 4.0
• 3-6
• 700

Intended audience source

• Follett Library Resources
• Follett Library Resources
• Lexile

LC call number

PZ7.O217

LC item number

How 2007

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

700

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 3
• 7

Target audience

pre adolescent