White Fur Flying (6 page)

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

copyright © 2013 by Patricia MacLachlan

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Book design by Debra Sfetsios-Conover

Jacket design by Debra Sfetsios-Conover

Jacket illustration copyright © 2013 Amy June Bates

Author photograph copyright © 2010 by John MacLachlan

The text for this book is set in Baskerville.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

MacLachlan, Patricia.

White fur flying / Patricia MacLachlan.—1st ed.

p. cm.

Summary: A sad and silent nine-year-old boy finds his voice when he moves next to a family that rescues dogs.

ISBN 978-1-4424-2171-4 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-4424-2173-8 (eBook)

[1. Rescue dogs—Fiction. 2. Dogs—Fiction. 3. Human-animal relationships—Fiction. 4. Family problems—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.M2225Whi 2013

[Fic]—dc23

2011046125