Genre: Realistic Fiction
Age Level: 12 and up
# of Pages: 197 p.
RAC Book: Yes
2008 Iowa Teen Award Winner
Twelve-year-old Charley is still recovering from a car accident in which her leg was badly hurt. As she struggles to walk with a cane around the lake near her house she finds a wild dog whom she names Coyote. Charley makes it her mission to tame Coyote and keep him as a personal friend. She feels they have a connection and she needs a friend for the summer since her best friend went off to tennis camp.
Listen is a slow moving story about a girl coping with the death of her mother and then a traumatic accident of her own in which she spent many months rehabilitating from. Coyote helps her to come to terms with everything she has lost as well as finding how to move on. Animal lovers will enjoy this book because it accurately illustrates how animals and humans can help each other heal. A good story, but many students may find it too slow without enough action to keep them intrigued and engaged.
really want this book cuz i love love love love love love LOVE DOGS MOSTLY MY DOG tOOTSIE ROLL HIS A MINIATURE PINCHER
it’s a good book and is very heart warming
i love this book. it so exciting. i can never put it down sometimes. I love dogs.. witch makes it even better. This is a really good book!
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dear people,
i havent read this book yet but it seems good i read the first 30 pages and it was hard to put down i dont know how to deal with a book like that. i sort of can relate to that with my grandma she has cancer and shes all discombobulate and when we give her this little dog for christmas she emidetly falls in love with it.
This a amazing book I started it yesterday and I am all most done. This the most amazing book I have ever read. I love it.
i need to read this book for a book club in my school and i was going to finsih it with my gourp over vaction but i forgot the book
anyway this book is’nt that good lets just say its not my favorite book theres many more favorite books i jjust dont like this one
i just got this book the other day thinking i wont like this turns out i love it and it is such a great book it is soo hard to put downn to every one who had never read this now is tthe time to startt ! i only got this bbook cuz i read these coments and now its an amazing book ili <33 ♥♥
This is a great book sad happy and sometimes funny
THIS BOOK IS SOOOO AMAZING IVE READ IT OVER AND OVER AT LEAST 3 TIMES!iT IS VERY HEART WARMING…i RELLY COULDNT PUT IT DOWN
i REALLY TRULY LOVE THIS BOOK! IMFALLING IN LOVE WITH cOYOTE!!!