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    A Home for Goddesses and Dogs
    A Home for Goddesses and Dogs
    A Home for Goddesses and Dogs
    Audiobook8 hours

    A Home for Goddesses and Dogs

    Written by Leslie Connor

    Narrated by Patricia Santomasso

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    A unique masterpiece about loss, love, and the world’s best bad dog, from award winner Leslie Connor, author of the National Book Award finalist The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle.

    This novel sings about loss and love and finding joy in new friendships and a loving family, along with the world’s best bad dog. An uplifting middle grade novel about recovery featuring strong female characters, an adorable dog, and the girl who comes to love him.

    It’s a life-altering New Year for thirteen-year-old Lydia when she uproots to a Connecticut farm to live with her aunt following her mother’s death.

    Aunt Brat and her jovial wife, Eileen, and their ancient live-in landlord, Elloroy, are welcoming—and a little quirky. Lydia’s struggle for a sense of belonging in her new family is highlighted when the women adopt a big yellow dog just days after the girl’s arrival.

    Wasn’t one rescue enough?

    Lydia is not a dog person—and this one is trouble! He is mistrustful and slinky. He pees in the house, escapes into the woods, and barks at things unseen. His new owners begin to guess about his unknown past.

    Meanwhile, Lydia doesn’t want to be difficult—and she does not mean to keep secrets—but there are things she’s not telling...

    Like why the box of “paper stuff” she keeps under her bed is so important... 

    And why that hole in the wall behind a poster in her room is getting bigger...

    And why something she took from the big yellow dog just might be the key to unraveling his mysterious past—but at what cost?

    * Junior Library Guild Selection *

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKatherine Tegen Books
    Release dateFeb 25, 2020
    ISBN9780062971449
    Author

    Leslie Connor

    Leslie Connor is the author of several award-winning books for children, including two ALA Schneider Family Book Award winners, Waiting for Normal and The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle, which was also selected as a National Book Award finalist. Her other books include All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook, Crunch, and The Things You Kiss Goodbye. She lives in the Connecticut woods with her family and three rescue dogs. You can visit her online at www.leslieconnor.com.

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      This was a really nice book -- what a word, nice. What I mean is that I kept wanting to come back to it, to listen some more, to spend time with the characters some more. The audio book reader was delightful, the characters are really great -- from Elieen's braying laugh to Elloroy's anticipation of death, to Aunt Brat's calm and sometimes clinically rational responses on all occasions. Lydia's extraordinary bond with her mother is almost its own character, and Lydia, of course, is a really endearing, dry, buttoned-up girl, with private snarky thoughts and a remarkable resilience. And then there are the dogs. Funny how dogs creep into our lives whether they are invited or not, or whether we enthusiastically welcome them or not. This is a good dog story. A good goat story. A great art story, and a really excellent story about grief and love and found family. *spoiler* the main lgbtq contribution is Aunt Brat and Eileen's relationship.