Fleabiscuit Sings!
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Children's Books
Published: April 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9780761452133
Subjects: Fiction; New York; Dogs; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction; Performing Arts - Music; Juvenile Fiction; Children: Grades 4-6; General; Family life; Action & Adventure - General; Animals - Dogs; Children's 9-12; New York (State); Readers - Intermediate; City and town life
First sentence: It all began the summer my best friend, Ziggy, moved away.
Description: Fleabiscuit is a terrier with a fuzzy face, short legs, wet brown eyes, and two ears that fold like the backs of an envelopes. And there's something else...he can sing! When he hears an Irish song, he lifts his chin up in the air, opens his shaggy, doggy mouth, and lets out a sound that is like "something you'd hear in the studio of an opera singer or a sound you might hear out of the mouth of a voice teacher giving a lesson." His dog walking friend, Nicky, is amazed. What if Fleabiscuit could be trained to preform with the rest of the family in " Music Under New York"? He could sing along with Mom, while Nicky played the xylophone  and his sister danced on the subway platform. It's a great plan... until Fleabiscuit's owner, Mr. Muffin, gets sick and Fleabiscuit gets sent to a shelter. Not only is Fleabiscuit gone, but Mr. Muffins is no longer around to make the Hope cookies that bring good luck to everyone who eats them. Without Mr. Muffin's cookies and Fleabiscuit in his life, Nicky is miserable. He must get Fleabiscuit back and learn how to make the Hope cookies on his own. But how?