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Children's Fiction Dogs

The Puppy Collection #6: Cricket's Close Call

by (author) Susan Hughes

illustrated by Leanne Franson

Publisher
Scholastic Canada Ltd
Initial publish date
Aug 2015
Category
Dogs, Friendship
Recommended Age
6 to 9
Recommended Grade
1 to 4
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781443133623
    Publish Date
    Aug 2015
    List Price
    $5.99
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781443148016
    Publish Date
    Oct 2015
    List Price
    $5.99

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Meet all kinds of puppies in this sweet illustrated series, perfect for newly independent readers!

Kat, Maya, and Grace are looking after Cricket, a Yorkshire terrier puppy, when a chocolate bar disappears from Maya’s backpack.

Kat knows chocolate is poisonous to dogs, and the girls are worried that Cricket may have eaten the chocolate bar. But they are also afraid to tell Aunt Jenn in case they get in trouble!

Can Kat, Maya, and Grace save Cricket in time?

About the authors

 

Susan Hughes
a étudié la littérature anglaise à l'Université de Toronto. Depuis, elle
écrit et publie des livres pour enfants, à la fois des fictions et des
documentaires. Elle habite avec sa famille à Toronto.

 

Susan Hughes studied English literature at the University of Toronto. She writes both fiction and non-fiction children's books. She lives with her family in Toronto.

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Leanne Franson spent her childhood winters in Regina and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, building snow forts while her dad watched hockey games on TV. She was a really bad skater -- but she could draw really well! In 1991, after she finished her BFA in Montreal, she started illustrating books. Leanne is fluently bilingual and has worked on books in English and French, illustrating in total over 100 picture books, chapter books, and textbooks. In 2012, she and her teenage son Benn returned to Saskatchewan, where she draws and makes ceramics in her acreage studio.

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