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Our hero is a boy, whose name we never learn. We know what he wants in life – with his mother exceedingly poor, and even his bed burnt to keep the two of them warm, he wants the prize offered by a down-a-mountain-and-back-up-and-down-again foot race. Winning the race and the large purse would also give him more status in the eyes of those kids that bully him, and it might even give him a voice – for he is almost mute. We quickly learn he never talks back to anyone, whatever the motivation, and can only speak aloud to himself – and, so it turns out, to a dog he rescues from a bad road accident he finds on his way up the hill to the start line…
[[Rook by Anthony McGowan]] also concerns a child finding an animal, and fits the exact same audience parameters as above.
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|name=Ruth from Old Barn Books
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|comment=Many thanks for your review of A DIFFERENT DOG. I want to reassure you that 'light globe', 'corellas' and also 'gar-bag' (bin bag), which could indeed be very confusing for a UK audience of whatever level of ability have been replaced with anglicised versions for our edition. The advance proof you received was a printing of the Australian text, as you rightly surmised. Sorry to confuse everyone. We'll send you a copy of our edition once it's back from the printer.
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