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

Genre

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

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