Effects of a dog
In How to
steal a dog by Barbara O' Connor, Georgina Hayes is a poor girl and her
house is, well, a mini van. Her mom is juggling two different jobs, trying to
save up enough money for an apartment. After seeing a flyer for a missing dog
with a big reward for it's return, Georgina plans to steal a dog and wait for the fliers to pop up. After a few tries, she finally steals a dog from its yard, and from this point nothing will ever be the same; She now has to hide the dog from the owner, her mom, and everyone really to keep herself from being in serious trouble and to insure that the reward money is hers.
What lead to this is when her and her
brother, Tony, search for a dog who
meets their requirements: A quiet dog in a rich-looking house. Anything
different than that, the two of them could be caught or not get a high enough
reward. But after the climax, the effects of it are hiding the dog in an abandoned house. After a while the
owner gets very worried, and Georgina is trying to convince her to offer a high reward for the dog's safe return. This part of the book reminds me of how in Warriors New Prophecy: Midnight by Erin Hunter, humans start destroying the forest and all the cats get very nervous and don't really know what to do, like the owner of the dog. But even
though stealing a dog was a weird idea from the start, if she didn't try at all she would spend the rest
of her life in a mini van with her mom desperately trying to get enough money.
Funny how stealing a dog could completely change your life.
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