Title: When friendship followed me home
Description: Seventh-grader Ben, always an outsider, is led into a deep friendship with Halley, who is being treated for cancer, by the special dog he and his adoptive mother take in.
Subjects: Adoption, Middle schools, Cancer, Schools, Friendship, Dogs, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, New York Times reviewed, Children's fiction, Friendship, fiction, Dogs, fiction, Cancer, fiction, Adoption, fiction, Schools, fiction