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How to Steal a Dog
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by Barbara O'Connor (Author) (edit contributors)

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Half of me was thinking , Georgina, don’t do this. Stealing a dog is just plain wrong. The other half of me was thinking , Georgina, you’re in a bad fix and you got to do whatever it takes to get yourself out of it.   Georgina Hayes is desperate. Ever since her father left and they were... read more

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The plot of this story was about a girl named Georgina who lives in a car along with her mom and her little brother, Toby. After their dad leaves with all the money, they are poor, and cant pay any rent, so they have no choice but to live in a car. Georgina gets tired of living in a car and... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

The plot of this story was about a girl named Georgina who lives in a car along with her mom and her little brother, Toby. After their dad leaves with all the money, they are poor, and cant pay any rent, so they have no choice but to live in a car. Georgina gets tired of living in a car and wants to live in a real house or apartment. So Georgina decides to try to steal a dog. The conflict was when she got the dog she didn't know where to keep it and what to feed it. The theme of this story is that you should always tell the truth no matter what happens, even if you get in really big trouble. I really liked this book, it was a fun and a suspenseful book. This book was definitely one of my favorite books!

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  • “"To us, you ninny""I swear Toby, sometimes i wonder about you.""But why would they pay us to steal a dog?"”
  • “Where do you live?""Out here. Out side.""Outside? How come?""Cause I don't have to paint the air or tar paper the sky or mop the ground. All I gotta do is breathe.”
  • “Sometimes the trail you leave behind you is more important than the path ahead of you.”
  • “I took his whiskery face in both my hands and rubbed my nose back and forth again his. An Eskimo kiss.”
  • “Bad times can make a person do bad things.”
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  • “Sometimes the trail you leave behind you is more important than the path ahead of you.”
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  • Lucky for us the nights were still cool, though, ’cause Mama made us keep the windows rolled up all night long.
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  • After two nights in the same place, off we went, to some new spot. Now we were parked too close to school and farther away from Whitmore Road. How was I supposed to keep an eye on that dog if we kept parking so far away?
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  • She could pluck a reason out of the air like a magician plucks a rabbit out of his hat.
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  • I turned it every which way, but I couldn’t make out a single word.
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  • If there was ever a time when I wished the earth would open up and swallow me whole, it was when I turned around and saw Luanne looking at me and Toby and that car and all.
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  • nothing but three rolls of quarters and a mayonnaise jar full of wadded-up dollar bills.
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  • The day I decided to steal a dog was the same day my best friend, Luanne Godfrey, found out I lived in a car.
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  • I could feel the distance between us grow and grow until it seemed like Luanne Godfrey, who had been my friend forever, was standing clear on the other side of the universe from me.
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  • “Sometimes,” he said, “the more you stir it, the worse it stinks.”
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  • Car: this place is important because this is where Georgina and Toby and her mom live
  • Whitmore Road: The street Willy and Carmella live on

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The day I decided to steal a dog was the same day my best friend, Luanne Godfrey, found out I lived in a car.

Table of Contents edit see section history

21 chapters. no titles.

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 4 of 23 in 2010-2011 Iowa Children's Choice Award. (authoritative list)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Barbara O'Connor (Author)

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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
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Publication Date: March 20th 2007
ISBN: 0374334978
Page Count: 170

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