Title: Almost home /
Authors: McNally, T. M.
Publisher: Scribner,
Year: 1998
Subjects: City and town life Arizona Fiction.; City and town life Fiction; Paradise Valley (Ariz.) Fiction.; Arizona Fiction
Abstract: A dog's love helps a youth in Arizona overcome life's sorrows. He is Patrick O'Connell whose father committed suicide, his mother drinks and his sister is on drugs. On top of which the ex-boyfriend of his high-school sweetheart gave him a beating. Fortunately, there is the dog, Germs.