Lila and Hadley / Kody Keplinger.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Scholastic Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: First editionDescription: 245 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781338306095
- 133830609X
- 9781338649321 (pbk.)
- 1338649329 (pbk.)
- Pit bull terriers -- Juvenile fiction
- Dogs -- Training -- Juvenile fiction
- Retinitis pigmentosa -- Juvenile fiction
- Blind children -- Juvenile fiction
- Blind -- Juvenile fiction
- People with disabilities -- Juvenile fiction
- Sisters -- Juvenile fiction
- Mothers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction
- Anger -- Juvenile fiction
- Kentucky -- Juvenile fiction
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | KEPLINGE KODY | Available | 33111009656048 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Can a lost girl save a found dog? Find out in this unforgettable story about discovering true friendship, finding home, and the possibilities of forgiveness.
Hadley is angry about a lot of things: Her mom going to jail. Having to move to another state to live with her older sister, Beth, even though they haven't spoken in five years. Leaving her friends and her school behind. And going blind.
But then Hadley meets Lila.
Lila is an abandoned dog who spends her days just quietly lying around at the local dog rescue where Beth works. She doesn't listen to directions or play with the other dogs or show any interest in people. So when Lila comes and sits by Hadley (which is hardly anything, but it's more than she's done with others), Beth thinks maybe Hadley can help Lila. She tells Hadley they'll bring Lila home as a foster dog and Hadley can teach her to follow commands, walk on a leash, and be more of a people dog so she'll be ready to be adopted.
Only working with Lila is harder than Hadley thought, and so is the mobility training she starts taking to help with her failing vision. It feels like Lila is too stubborn to train and like learning to use a cane is impossible. But unless Hadley can help Lila, she'll never be adopted into a home. If Hadley could just let go of her anger, she might be able to save Lila... and herself.
New York Times bestselling author Kody Keplinger weaves an unforgettable story about discovering true friendship, finding home, and the possibilities of forgiveness.
Ages 9-11. Scholastic Press.
Grades 4-6. Scholastic Press.
Hadley is an angry girl: angry at her mother for embezzling money, angry at her estranged older sister, Beth, whom she has to live with while her mother is in jail, angry at having to move to Kentucky away from her friends, and angry at the world because she has retinitis pigmentosa and is slowly going blind; but then she meets Lila, a rescued pit bull who has not responded to anyone else--so if Hadley can train Lila, maybe the dog can get adopted into her forever home, and just maybe Lila can help Hadley deal with her own problems.