![]() Sometimes, however, you do almost anything to save a dog. Marty puts his courage on the line, and discovers in the process that it is not always easy to separate right from wrong. When his solution gets too big for him to handle, things become more frightening still. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor has written more than 135 books, including the Newbery Award-winning Shiloh and its sequels, the Alice series, Roxie and the Hooligans. What do you do when a dog you suspect is being mistreated runs away and comes to you? When it is someone else's dog? When the man who owns him has a gun? This is Marty's problem, and he finds it is one he has to face alone. ![]() ![]() ![]() But one summer Sunday, Marty comes across something different on the road just past the old Shiloh schoolhouses - a young beagle - and the trouble begins. Other times he goes up early in the morning just to sit and watch the fox and deer. Travers almost brags about yelling at his dogs or kicking them so hard they might fly across the room. Even when Travers comes to the Prestons home, where Shiloh feels safe and comfortable, he shrinks back into his bed and quivers at the sound of his voice. ![]() 22 rifle to see what he can shoot, like some cans lined up on a rail fence. Shiloh is a sweet, gentle dog who has clearly been terrorized by Judd Travers. Eleven-year-old Marty Preston loves to spend time up in the hills behind his home near Friendly, West Virginia. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor has written more than 135 books, including the Newbery Award-winning Shiloh and its sequels, the Alice series, Roxie and the. ![]()
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