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Shiloh
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Eleven-year-old Marty Preston loves to spend time up in the hills behind his home near Friendly, West Virginia.
Sometimes he takes his .22 rifle to see what he can shoot, like some cans lined up on a rail fence. Other times he goes up early in the morning just to sit and watch the fox and deer. But one summer Sunday, Marty comes across something different on the road just past the old Shiloh schoolhouses — a young beagle — and the trouble begins.
What do you do when a dog you suspect is being mistreated runs away and comes to you? When it is someone else's dog? When the man who owns him has a gun? This is Marty's problem, and he finds it is one he has to face alone. When his solution gets too big for him to handle, things become more frightening still. Marty puts his courage on the line, and discovers in the process that it is not always easy to separate right from wrong. Sometimes, however, you do almost anything to save a dog.
Dimensions: 8.72" L x 5.82" W
Details: Hardcover, 144 pages
Author: Phyllis Naylor
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The 1992 Newbery Medal was awarded to Shiloh, as well as 25 state children's choice awards. "A moving and powerful look at the best and the worst of human nature as well as the shades of gray that color most of life's dilemmas."
—Booklist starred review
About Phyllis Naylor
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor says the hardest part of being a writer is focusing only on the book she is currently writing. She constantly comes up with new ideas and characters. Every time she gets a new book idea, she puts the title of the book on a three-ring binder. As she thinks up characters and scenes for that book, she jots them down in the notebook. She usually has about ten of these idea notebooks on her shelf while she is writing a book.
Naylor's children are grown and have families of their own. So many of her readers wonder how she stays in touch with kids' language and thoughts. "When I am out in public," she says, "I really pay attention… I'm always listening. In a drugstore, wherever I'm shopping, I look at what kids are doing and listen to what they're talking about, how they wear their hair… I really am thinking back to when I was that age, and I discover that feelings don't change at all over the years. You maybe have a different type of an embarrassing moment, but it's embarrassing just the same. I concentrate on feelings and relationships."
When asked how she spends her spare time, Naylor replies, "What spare time? If I'm not writing, I'm thinking about writing. If you followed me around for a week, you would see me go on a three-mile walk every morning and swim every afternoon and sometimes play the piano, but all the while, I'm working out a plot in my head."
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