Engle, Margarita,

Mountain dog / Margarita Engle ; illustrations by Olga & Aleksey Ivanov. - First Square Fish edition. - 215 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

When Tony's mother is sent to jail, he is sent to stay with a great uncle he has never met in Sierra Nevada. It is a daunting move--Tony's new world bears no semblance to his previous one. But slowly, against a remote and remarkable backdrop, the scars from Tony's troubled past begin to heal.

ISBN: 9781250044242 (pbk.) 1250044243 (pbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Rescue dogs--Fiction.
Dogs--Fiction.
Human-animal relationships--Fiction.
Great-uncles--Fiction.
Foster home care--Fiction.
Hispanic Americans--Fiction.
Novels in verse.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--Fiction.

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]