News For Dogs (Hotel for Dogs) - Hardcover

Duncan, Lois

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0545108535 ISBN 13: 9780545108539

Publisher: Scholastic Inc., 2009

Synopsis

From beloved author Lois Duncan comes the sequel to HOTEL FOR DOGS -- a brand-new adventure with Andi, her brother Bruce, and their canine companions!

Now that Andi is no longer running a hotel for dogs, she decides to start a new project -- a newspaper for dogs! With her brother Bruce and a few friends, the kids make a hit out of their paper. But they also attract the attention of some mysterious dognappers. Can the kids find the criminals and bring their dogs safely home?

About this title

From the Author

When HOTEL FOR DOGS was made into a popular movie, Scholastic republished it and asked me to write two sequels.  NEWS FOR DOGS was the first of those.  It was a challenge to write a sequel to a book I wrote in 1971 and place it in the 21st Century. In HOTEL, Andi was 10 and Bruce was 12.  In NEWS, Andi is 11 and Bruce is 13.  So, in real time, the story took place about 6 months after the first story ended, but I had to supply the children with access to today's technology, including computers and cell phones, without making that change too apparent.

In NEWS FOR DOGS, Andi and Bruce and their two best friends publish a newspaper with articles appropriate for dogs to enjoy when their owners read to them.  All goes well, until they get inspired to post the paper on the Internet, and Bruce gets carried away with enhancing his photos using Photo Shop.  When the dogs they have featured in their articles start disappearing and the owners begin to receive ransom notes, the children realize they have made those dogs targets for dognappers.

This, then ,becomes a wild adventure story, with valiant Aunt Alice starring in her roll as private investigator as she and the children go on a crusade to rescue the dognapped dogs and return them safely to their grieving owners.

I had so much fun writing this story!  Personally I think it is better than HOTEL FOR DOGS.  But why shouldn't it be?  I had 35 years between the first book and the sequel in which to hone my skills as a writer.
--Lois Duncan

About the Author

Lois Duncan modeled the main character in HOTEL FOR DOGS after her childhood self. Like Andi, Lois knew from an early age that she wanted to be a writer and started submitting stories to magazines when she was ten. Today she is the author of 50 books, most of them for young people. She lives in Sarasota, Florida, with her husband, and can be found online at http://loisduncan.arquettes.com/.

About this edition

• Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0545108535
• ISBN 13: 9780545108539
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224