| Description |
179 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
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| Audience |
840 Lexile. |
| Summary |
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. 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. |
| Performer |
Illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky. |
| Study Program |
Reading Counts RC 3-5 5.6 7.0 11026. |
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MG 3.0 5442. Accelerated Reader AR 4.8. |
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Accelerated Reader Middle Grade 4.8 3.0 Kilgore Intermediate. |
| Awards |
Texas Bluebonnet award nominee, 1992-1993. |
| Subject |
Dogs -- Juvenile fiction.
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Divorce -- Juvenile fiction.
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High schools -- Juvenile fiction.
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Diaries -- Juvenile fiction.
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Dogs -- Fiction.
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Divorce -- Fiction.
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High schools -- Fiction.
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Schools -- Fiction.
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Diaries -- Fiction.
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Diaries. (OCoLC)fst00892657
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Divorce. (OCoLC)fst00895809
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Dogs. (OCoLC)fst00896265
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High schools. (OCoLC)fst00956288
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| Genre/Form |
Diaries -- Juvenile fiction.
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Diary fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726582
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
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Diaries -- Juvenile fiction.
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| Added Author |
Zelinsky, Paul O., illustrator.
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| ISBN |
0688099009 (trade) |
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9780688099008 (trade) |
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0688099017 (lib. bdg.) |
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9780688099015 (lib. bdg.) |
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9780380712366 (paperback) |
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0380712369 (paperback) |
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