Follett Content Book Detail: Something Like Home by Arango, Andrea Beatriz

Name: Something Like Home
Author: Arango, Andrea Beatriz
ISBN: [978-0-593-56621-3,0-593-56621-1]

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Something Like Home

Author: Arango, Andrea Beatriz

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Follett Number: 2258QE9
Audience: Middle School
Publisher: A Yearling book, 2024
Format: 248 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN-13: 978-0-593-56621-3
ISBN-10: 0-593-56621-1
Dewey: -Fic-
Classifications: Fiction

Subjects:

Dogs Fiction

Family Problems Fiction

Foster Home Care Fiction

Human-Animal Relationships Fiction

Novels in Verse

Puerto Ricans Fiction

"Ages 10-14"--Back cover. When a lost dog helps Laura find a way home to her family, they discover family in each other along the way.

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The Pura Belpre Honor winning novel in verse, in which a lost dog helps a lonely girl find a way home to her family . . . only for them to find family in each other along the way. From the Newbery Honor winning author of Iveliz Explains It All. "Trust me: this book will touch your heart." --Barbara O'Connor, New York Times bestselling author of Wish Titi Silvia leaves me by myself to unpack, but it's not like I brought a bunch of stuff. How do you prepare for the unpreparable? How do you fit your whole life in one bag? And how am I supposed to trust social services when they won't trust me back? Laura Rodriguez Colon has a plan: no matter what the grown-ups say, she will live with her parents again. Can you blame her? It's tough to make friends as the new kid at school. And while staying at her aunt's house is okay, it just isn't the same as being in her own space. So when Laura finds a puppy, it seems like fate. If she can train the puppy to become a therapy dog, then maybe she'll be allowed to visit her parents. Maybe the dog will help them get better and things will finally go back to the way they should be. After all, how do you explain to others that you're technically a foster kid, even though you live with your aunt? And most importantly . . . how do you explain that you're not where you belong, and you just want to go home?

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