Mountain dog /
Margarita Engle ; illustrations by Olga & Aleksey Ivanov.
- 1st Square Fish ed.
- 215 p. : ill ; 21 cm.
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When his mother is sent to jail in Los Angeles, eleven-year-old Tony goes to live with his forest ranger great-uncle in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where Tony experiences unconditional love for the first time through his friendship with a rescue dog.
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