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This Newbery Award-winning tale of adventure, courage and love is the timeless and moving story of a dog in trouble and the young boy who would save him.
Eleven-year-old Marty Preston loves to spend time up in the hills behind his home near Friendly, West Virginia, but one summer Sunday, Marty comes across a young beagle, and that's where the trouble begins . . .
What do you do when a dog you suspect is being mistreated runs away and comes to you? When the man who owns the dog has a gun? Soon Marty will have to put his courage on the line, discovering in the process that it is not always easy to separate right from wrong.