A Home for Goddesses and Dogs, Leslie Connor
A Home for Goddesses and Dogs, Leslie Connor
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A Home for Goddesses and Dogs

Author: Leslie Connor

Narrator: Patricia Santomasso

Unabridged: 8 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/25/2020


Synopsis

A unique masterpiece about loss, love, and the world’s best bad dog, from award winner Leslie Connor, author of the National Book Award finalist The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle.This novel sings about loss and love and finding joy in new friendships and a loving family, along with the world’s best bad dog. An uplifting middle grade novel about recovery featuring strong female characters, an adorable dog, and the girl who comes to love him.It’s a life-altering New Year for thirteen-year-old Lydia when she uproots to a Connecticut farm to live with her aunt following her mother’s death.Aunt Brat and her jovial wife, Eileen, and their ancient live-in landlord, Elloroy, are welcoming—and a little quirky. Lydia’s struggle for a sense of belonging in her new family is highlighted when the women adopt a big yellow dog just days after the girl’s arrival.Wasn’t one rescue enough?Lydia is not a dog person—and this one is trouble! He is mistrustful and slinky. He pees in the house, escapes into the woods, and barks at things unseen. His new owners begin to guess about his unknown past.Meanwhile, Lydia doesn’t want to be difficult—and she does not mean to keep secrets—but there are things she’s not telling...Like why the box of “paper stuff” she keeps under her bed is so important... And why that hole in the wall behind a poster in her room is getting bigger...And why something she took from the big yellow dog just might be the key to unraveling his mysterious past—but at what cost?* Junior Library Guild Selection *

About Leslie Connor

Leslie Connor is the author of several award-winning books for children, including two ALA Schneider Family Book Award winners, Waiting for Normal and The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle, which was also selected as a National Book Award finalist. Her other books include All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook, Crunch, and The Things You Kiss Goodbye. She lives in the Connecticut woods with her family and three rescue dogs. You can visit her online at www.leslieconnor.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Woff on March 03, 2021

At least 90% of books with dogs end with the dog dying. This is a fact. In the remaining 10%, the dog will survive, but only after being horribly injured/placed in mortal danger/lost in the woods. Either way, you will sob.......more

Goodreads review by Maura on May 03, 2020

I enjoyed Waiting for Normal and I absolutely LOVED The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle, so I was really excited to read Leslie Connor's latest middle grade novel. It fell far short of the brilliance and emotional resonance of Mason Buttle, however. This is a sweet, mostly gentle realistic contemporar......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie on November 01, 2023

I am completely smitten with this middle grade novel. As with her other novels, Leslie Connor has reached out of the page, grabbed my heart and brought me right into the story with loveable, resilient, spirited characters that I wanted to stay with much, much longer. The book begins with Lydia headi......more

Goodreads review by Shaye on March 15, 2020

This story was quite amazing. I wish I had better words, but it just completely caught me by surprise. I checked it out on a whim (it was not on my TBR list) and even with a surprise snowstorm and coronavirus and schools and businesses being closed down, I felt like I was cozied up in a soft, warm b......more

Goodreads review by Cassie on April 10, 2020

Finished Leslie’s newest and it was just such a feel good, heart print story. Lydia’s mom had just recently been terminally ill and passed away, her father had left them 6 years prior because he just couldn’t “handle” her moms illness. Lydias mom though had made a plan for her and throughout the sto......more