The New York Times bestseller, Indie bestseller, and Amazon Best Children's Book from beloved authors Katherine Applegate and Gennifer Choldenko and with illustrations by Wallace West, Dogtown is at once an uplifting story and a page-turning adventure, sure to find a forever home in readers’ hearts.
Dogtown is a shelter for stray dogs, misbehaving dogs, and discarded robot dogs, whose owners have outgrown them.
Chance, a real dog, has been in Dogtown since her owners unwittingly left her with irresponsible dog-sitters who skipped town.
Metal Head is a robot dog who dreams of being back in a real home.
And Mouse is a mouse who has the run of Dogtown, pilfering kibble, and performing clever feats to protect the dogs he loves.
When Chance and Metal Head embark on an adventure to find their forever homes, there is danger, cheese sandwiches, a charging station, and some unexpected kindnesses along the way.
Katherine Applegate is the #1
New York Times-bestselling author of beloved and award-winning books for young readers, including
Pocket Bear, Odder, Home of the Brave, Crenshaw, Wishtree,
Willodeen, and
The One and Only Ivan, for which she won the Newbery Medal. She is also the author of the Animorphs series, a beginning reader series, Doggo and Pupper, illustrated by Charlie Alder, and the picture book,
Odder: An Otter's Story, illustrated by Charles Santoso. Her middle-grade books,
Dogtown and Mouse and His Dog, co-authored with Gennifer Choldenko, were also instant
New York Times bestsellers. Katherine Applegate lives in Nevada with her family.
Gennifer Choldenko’s best known Tales from Alcatraz series has been called “A cornerstone series in contemporary children’s literature.”
Al Capone Does My Shirts―the first book in the series―was a Newbery Honor Book and the recipient of twenty other awards. All four books in the series were Junior Library Guild selections and garnered many starred reviews. Gennifer lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her loyal husband and naughty dog.
Wallace West is a world explorer who spends most of his time on the US East Coast (the rest, wherever strikes his fancy). He once foolishly petted a wild alligator, and considers a tinned-fish picnic in Norway the best meal he's ever had. By day he writes and illustrates, by night he wonders if he should get a pet snake. He is the illustrator of the New York Times-bestselling Dogtown books by Katherine Applegate and Gennifer Choldenko.
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