num_pages: 192
description: Ernie is a twelve-year-old tycoon, always on the lookout for a fast buck. This time he stumbles onto a money-making bonanza: pet funerals. He hires Dusty to decorate the burial boxes and Tony to dig the holes, but his prize find is Swimming Pool, a tomboy who can cry on cue.  Business goes through the roof -- until Ernie loses Swimming Pool over a raise and the whole venture unravels. Here is a rollicking, fun-spirited novel about friendship, loss, business -- and how we learn to express our feelings.
language: English
title: The Beloved Dearly
titlecomplete: The Beloved Dearly
genres: Middle Grade, Audiobook, Realistic Fiction, Childrens, Juvenile, Young Adult, Kids, Fiction, Contemporary, Humor
ratings_count: 479
series: The Beloved Dearly
publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers