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McTavish - Good Dog McTavish

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A rescue dog with a difference must save the Peachey family in this charming story for the young and the young at heart, filled to the brim with Meg Rosoff's wry humour and beautiful prose. The first in a series.

The Peachey family is in crisis. No one cooks dinner, no one picks up the dirty washing and the kids are always late for school. All because Mum has resigned from being Mum and taken up yoga instead. She's in the tree pose; everyone else is in the doghouse. Except McTavish, a rescue dog with a difference, on a mission to sort his new family out…

RRP: £7.99

Imprint

Barrington Stoke

ISBN

978-1-78112-683-7

Interest age

9+

Accelerated Reader Level

5.1

Publication Date

04-04-2017

Format

Paperback

Pages

144 pages

Dimensions

130x198mm

Product Description

A rescue dog with a difference must save the Peachey family in this charming story for the young and the young at heart, filled to the brim with Meg Rosoff's wry humour and beautiful prose. The first in a series.

The Peachey family is in crisis. No one cooks dinner, no one picks up the dirty washing and the kids are always late for school. All because Mum has resigned from being Mum and taken up yoga instead. She's in the tree pose; everyone else is in the doghouse. Except McTavish, a rescue dog with a difference, on a mission to sort his new family out…

Author

Meg Rosoff, Illustrated by Grace Easton

Meg Rosoff is a hugely versatile novelist for children and adults and has won the Branford Boase Award, the Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and the Printz Award. Her post-apocalyptic How I Live Now was made into a major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan and Picture Me Gone was shortlisted for the National Book Award in the USA. Originally from Massachusetts, Meg now lives in London.

Imprint

Barrington Stoke

ISBN

978-1-78112-683-7

Interest age

9+

Accelerated Reader Level

5.1

Publication Date

04-04-2017

Format

Paperback

Pages

144 pages

Dimensions

130x198mm

Product Description

A rescue dog with a difference must save the Peachey family in this charming story for the young and the young at heart, filled to the brim with Meg Rosoff's wry humour and beautiful prose. The first in a series.

The Peachey family is in crisis. No one cooks dinner, no one picks up the dirty washing and the kids are always late for school. All because Mum has resigned from being Mum and taken up yoga instead. She's in the tree pose; everyone else is in the doghouse. Except McTavish, a rescue dog with a difference, on a mission to sort his new family out…

Author

Meg Rosoff, Illustrated by Grace Easton

Meg Rosoff is a hugely versatile novelist for children and adults and has won the Branford Boase Award, the Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and the Printz Award. Her post-apocalyptic How I Live Now was made into a major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan and Picture Me Gone was shortlisted for the National Book Award in the USA. Originally from Massachusetts, Meg now lives in London.

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