Genre: Children’s Mid Grade
Publisher: Imajin Books
Date of Publication: August 1, 2013
Number of pages: 109
Word Count: 43,000
Cover Artist: Ryan Doan
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About the Book
Seventh grade best friends, Caylie Jiang-Kahn, Lauren Blindell, and Sabrina Robinson have busy middle school lives.
Sabrina wants to make a movie about their friendship, but a stray dog shows up and ruins the day. In frustration, Lauren curses, “Oh Phooey.” The name sticks. The crazy mutt will forever be named Phoo.
Sabrina pieces together bits of the footage she shot. She highlights Phoo’s silly antics and puts the video up on a movie contest website.
The video goes viral and suddenly, Lauren, Caylie, and Sabrina are celebrities at school. When a volunteer at the dog shelter sees the film, she assumes the dog belongs to the girls and calls them to come collect Phoo.
The girls arrange to take turns caring for Phoo until he can be adopted.
While sharing Phoo, Caylie, Sabrina and Lauren begin to notice that if the dog is around, lucky things seem to happen. The moment he’s gone…the luck disappears.
When they all need the dog’s magic at the same time, it’s up to the girls to decide once and for all: Is Phoo truly a lucky dog?
Review blurbs for LUCKY
PHOO
“With punchy dialogue and a fast moving pace, LUCKY PHOO takes readers on a wild adventure as three friends try to share fostering duties of a lovable stray dog.” —Marianne Mitchell, author of FIREBUG
“Stacia Deutsch and Rhody Cohon are two very best friends who write books together, which is very lucky for their readers. You’ll want to share LUCKY PHOO with all your friends, too!” —Jennifer J. Stewart, author of CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF A THIRD WORLD KIND, Connecticut Nutmeg Book Award List; Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award List; Arizona Grand Canyon Reader Award List
"LUCKY PHOO is a great story about friendship, love and responsibility--Phoo, the lucky dog who wanders into Sabrina's, Caylie's and Lauren's world is indeed lucky--although maybe not as lucky as these girls whose life he changes." —Terry Trueman, Printz Honor Author of STUCK IN NEUTRAL
"Okay, full disclosure: I LOVE good, strong, dog stories--Lucky Phoo is precisely one of those!" —Terry Trueman, Printz Honor Author of STUCK IN NEUTRAL
Mrs. Salinas was ready to go. “So if you
girls are sure you can’t take him any longer, I’ll just head on over to the van―” She took a few steps forward
then turned back to the girls. “You’re sure you can’t foster him any longer?”
“I can’t,” Sabrina said, her voice tight and sad.
“Not me,” Lauren confirmed.
“I might be able to squeeze out another weekend,” Caylie said,
“but we’d be back here on Monday.”
“Right,” Mrs. Salinas said. “And at least this way he has a
chance of getting adopted in Fresno.”
She took a few more steps towards the van. The rain, to Lauren, seemed
to be coming down harder. The drops blended in with her tears now. And
looking at Caylie and Sabrina, Lauren couldn’t tell, but was pretty
sure they were crying, too.
Mrs. Salina’s stopped one more time, just at the edge of the parking
lot. “It was great having him,” she said. “Wasn’t it?”
“Yeah,” Lauren agreed. “Great.”
“We had fun,” Caylie said.
“Fun,” Sabrina repeated the word. “Yeah. We had a good time.”
Mrs. Salinas nodded. “I thought so.” She looked down at the dog,
then back at the girls. “Tell me,” she said, her voice soft, drippy
like the rain. “Weren’t things better when Phoo was around?”
The remark caught Lauren off-guard. What was Mrs. Salinas talking
about?
“I think she’s right,” Lauren said, turning to Caylie and Sabrina.
“Things have been going better than usual for me lately.”
“You don’t think he might have some kind of powers?” Sabrina
looked over at Mrs. Salinas who was now at the van, loading Phoo inside.
“Well,” Caylie said, considering.
“I think maybe,” Lauren said tentatively. “I saw this show about
luck and how―” Lauren stopped herself mid-sentence when she saw
Mrs. Salinas push Phoo into an empty carrying cage. His voice joined
the choir of barking dogs and was the loudest of them all.
In a sudden move, the girls rushed forward
to stop the truck, shouting together, “Mrs. Salinas! Wait!”
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About the Authors
Rhody Cohon wishes she could adopt a million pets! Until her house
is big enough she'll pamper the few she has and help others find the
perfect home.Find Rhody at www.rhodycohon.com.
Stacia Deutsch sits at the keyboard crafting stories all day and then, plays with her own crazy, lucky, dog at night. She and her three kids live in Southern California. You can visit Stacia at www.staciadeutsch.com or on twitter at @staciadeutsch.
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This book sounds so cute, thanks for the amazing giveaway!
ReplyDeleteBook sounds cute my daughter would love this.
ReplyDeleteThe dog on the cover is so cute!
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