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<p><P>Georgina Hayes may be homeless, but she&#8217;s not hopeless.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p><P>O'Connor (<I>Me and Rupert Goody</I>) blends her usual poignancy and insight in another tale set in a small North Carolina town. "The day I decided to steal a dog was the same day my best friend, Luanne Godfrey, found out I lived in a car," begins plucky Georgina. After her father "just waltzed off and left us with nothing but three rolls of quarters and a mayonnaise jar full of wadded-up dollar bills," Georgina, her mother and younger brother, Toby, were evicted from their apartment. The three now sleep in their old Chevy. Since her mother works two jobs, saving up for a place to live, Georgina takes care of Toby after school, while carefree Luanne attends ballet class and Girl Scouts with her new best friend. A poster announcing a $500 reward for a missing dog gives the heroine an idea for helping to secure lodging. She diligently writes in her notebook rules for stealing a dog, but they turn out to be more complicated than she anticipates. The devastated woman whose pet Georgina purloins (and who is not wealthy enough to furnish a reward) and a wise and caring homeless man Geor

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Author

O'Connor, Barbara

Publisher

Frances Foster Books / Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781464023699

Category

children's

Subjects

Children'S, Fiction, Juvenile

Rating

3.91 / 5 (8,005 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14