Mountain dog

Resource Information

The work Mountain dog represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service (CCRLS). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

Mountain dog

Statement of responsibility

Margarita Engle ; illustrations by Olga & Aleksey Ivanov

Creator

• trueEngle, Margarita

Contributor

• Ivanov, O., (Olga)
• Ivanov, A., (Aleksey)

Author

• trueEngle, Margarita

Illustrator

• Ivanov, A., (Aleksey)
• Ivanov, O., (Olga)

Subject

• trueChildren of prisoners
• trueDogs
• Dogs
• Dogs -- Fiction
• Dogs -- Juvenile fiction
• trueEleven-year-old boys
• Fiction
• 1050L
• Juvenile works
• Novels in verse
• Novels in verse
• Novels in verse
• trueRescue dogs
• Rescue dogs
• Rescue dogs -- Fiction
• Rescue dogs -- Juvenile fiction
• Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- Fiction
• Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- Juvenile fiction
• trueSierra Nevada Mountains
• United States -- Sierra Nevada
• Foster home care
• Foster home care -- Fiction
• Foster home care -- Juvenile fiction
• trueGreat-uncles
• Great-uncles
• Great-uncles -- Fiction
• Great-uncles -- Juvenile fiction
• Hispanic Americans
• Hispanic Americans -- Fiction
• Hispanic Americans -- Juvenile fiction
• Human-animal relationships
• Human-animal relationships -- Fiction
• Human-animal relationships -- Juvenile fiction

Genre

• 1050L
• Fiction
• Juvenile fiction
• Juvenile works
• Novels in verse

Language

eng

Summary

When his mother is sent to jail in Los Angeles, eleven-year-old Tony goes to live with his forest ranger great-uncle in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where Tony experiences unconditional love for the first time through his friendship with a rescue dog

Storyline

• trueCharacter-driven

Tone

• trueMoving

Character

• trueAnthropomorphic

Awards note

Bluebonnet award, 2015-2016

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• 990L
• Sentence length: 5 (very hard)
• Word frequency: 3 (medium)

Intended audience source

• lexile
• Lexile

Interest level

• MG
• 3-5
• MG
• 3-5
• MG

LC call number

PZ7.5.E54

LC item number

Mo 2013

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 4
• 7

Reading level

• 5.9
• 9.4
• 5.9
• 9.4
• 5.9

Study program name

• Accelerated Reader
• Reading Counts
• Accelerated Reader AR
• Reading Counts RC
• Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning

Target audience

pre adolescent