When Friendship Followed Me Home
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If you have middle schoolers who are too young to fully grasp John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars and love dogs, give them this sweet tearjerker. – School Library JournalIn this beguiling tearjerker, a foster kid’s luck slowly changes after he befriends a scruffy pup he finds outside the library.–People magazine Ben Coffin has never been one for making friends. As a former foster kid, he knows people can up and leave without so much as a goodbye. Ben prefers to spend his time with the characters in his favorite sci-fi books…until he rescues an abandoned mutt from the alley next-door to the Coney Island Library. Scruffy little Flip leads Ben to befriend a fellow book-lover named Halley–yes, like the comet–a girl unlike anyone he has ever met. Ben begins thinking of her as “Rainbow Girl” because of her crazy-colored clothes and her laugh, pure magic, the kind that makes you smile away the stormiest day. Rainbow Girl convinces Ben to write a novel with her. But as their story unfolds Ben’s life begins to unravel, and Ben must discover for himself the truth about friendship and the meaning of home.
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After graduating Dartmouth College with a BA in Film Studies, I was well-prepared to find work as a butler and bartender, a cook and an EMT, a dog trainer, a driver. I washed dishes with Vin Diesel. I made movies and wrote short stories and plays, scripts and, yes, novels that more often than not featured the street mutts that had a habit of wiggling their way into whatever apartment I was living in at the time. I worked construction, loaded trucks, tutored and taught. The hardest and best work was the teaching. I started out with the Creative Arts Team, specializing in HIV/AIDS prevention and conflict resolution workshops. These days I work with organizations like Literacy for Incarcerated Teens and Behind the Book. Seeing young people learn how to tell their life stories in ways that might bring them a step closer to realizing their dreams—-that’s like finding treasure. I live with my family, human and canine, in New York City, which is chock-full of stories, not to mention characters.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9780147510068
- Publication Date
- July 18, 2017
- Publisher
- Puffin Books
- Page Count
- 272
- Words Per Page
- 179
- Audience
- Middle Grade
- Reading Age
- 10 - 13 years
- Lexile® Level
- 590L
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~O
- ATOS® Book Level
- 4.1
- Accelerated Reader® Points
- 7
- Accelerated Reader Quiz
- 182436
- Accelerated Reader Interest Level
- MG
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