01599cam a2200349 4500 1163442716 TxAuBib 20080611120000.0 050928s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2005040166 9780374334970 0374334978 TxAuBib O'Connor, Barbara. How to steal a dog : a novel / by Barbara O'Connor. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007. 170 p. ; 22 cm. "Frances Foster books.". Texas Bluebonnet award nominee 2008-2009. 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. 20080611. Homeless persons Juvenile fiction. Family problems Juvenile fiction. Conduct of life Juvenile fiction. Interpersonal relations Fiction. Brothers and sisters Juvenile fiction. Dogs Juvenile fiction. North Carolina Juvenile fiction. TXKIP