Engle, Margarita.

Mountain dog / Margarita Engle ; illustrations by Olga & Aleksey Ivanov. - First edition. - 215 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

When his mother is sent to jail in Los Angeles, eleven-year-old Tony goes to live with his forest ranger great-uncle in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where Tony experiences unconditional love for the first time through his friendship with a rescue dog.

ISBN: 9781250044242

LCCN: 2012027680

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Rescue dogs--Fiction.
Dogs--Fiction.
Human-animal relationships--Fiction.
Great-uncles--Fiction.
Foster home care--Fiction.
Hispanic Americans--Fiction.
Novels in verse.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--Fiction.

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]