Monninger, Joseph

As in his previous novels, including Baby (rev. 1/08), Hippie Chick (rev. 11/08), and Finding Somewhere (2011), Monninger tells a moving tale of a life-changing relationship between a human and an animal. Here, the animal is a dog, Wally, whose owner has tied him to a post outside in the freezing-cold Vermont winter. Sixteen-year-old neighbor Clair can hardly bear to listen to the lonely dog's pitiful whining and sets out to free him