O'Connor, Barbara.

How to steal a dog / Barbara O'Connor. - 1st Square Fish ed. - New York : Macmillan, 2009, c2007. - 170 p.

"Square Fish." "Farrar, Straus and Giroux."

Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer.

"008-012 "--P. [4] of cover.

ISBN: 0312561121 (pbk.) 9780312561123 0312561121 9780312561123 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2005040166

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Homeless persons--Fiction.
Conduct of life--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
Brothers and sisters--Fiction.
Dogs--Fiction.
Family problems--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
North Carolina--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.O217 / How 2009