A dog called Homeless
By: Sarah Lean ; illustrated by Gary Blythe
Contributors: Blythe, Gary
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780007455034; 9780007455027
Subjects: Mothers and daughters; Juvenile fiction; Fiction; Bereavement; Psychological aspects
Description: Fifth-grader Cally Louise Fisher stops talking, partly because her father and brother never speak of her mother who died a year earlier, but visions of her mother, friendships with a homeless man and a disabled boy, and a huge dog ensure that she still communicates.
Notes: Winner of the Schneider Book Award for Middle Grade readers - 2013.