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HOW TO STEAL A DOG. Copyright © 2007 by Barbara O'Connor.
All rights reserved. Printed in May 2010 in the United States of America by R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, Harrisonburg, Virginia.
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New York, NY 10010.
Square Fish and the Square Fish logo are trademarks of Macmillan and are used by Farrar, Straus and Giroux under license from Macmillan.
 
 
An Imprint of Macmillan
Originally published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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eISBN 9780374706791
First eBook Edition : April 2011
 
 
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
O'Connor, Barbara.
How to steal a dog / Barbara O'Connor.
p. cm.
Summary: Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer.
[I. Homeless persons—Fiction. 2. Family problems—Fiction. 3. Conduct of life—Fiction. 4. Interpersonal relations—Fiction. 5. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 6. Dogs—Fiction. 7. North Carolina—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.O217 How 2007
[Fic]—dc22
2005040166
First Square Fish Edition: 2009

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