Strider / Beverly Cleary ; illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky.
Material type:
TextPublication details: New York : Morrow Junior Books, c1991.Description: 179 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN: - 0688099009 (trade) :
- 0688099017 (lib. bdg.)
- [Fic] 20
- PZ7.C5792 St 1991
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | Cleary, Beverly | LB2 | Available | 33111002347959 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Strider has a new habit. Whenever we stop, he places his paw on my foot. It isn't an accident because he always does it. I like to think he doesn't want to leave me. Can a stray dog change the life of a teenage boy? It looks as if Strider can. He's a dog that loves to run; because of Strider, Leigh Botts finds himself running--well enough to join the school track team. Strider changes Leigh on the inside, too, as he finally begins to accept his parents' divorce and gets to know a redheaded girl he's been admiring. With Strider's help, Leigh finds that the future he once hated to be asked about now holds something he never expected: hope.
In a series of diary entries, Leigh tells how he comes to terms with his parents' divorce, acquires joint custody of an abandoned dog, and joins the track team at school.