Author Language English ISBN 978-0-670-01403-3 | Country United States Publisher Viking Press Published 13 September 2012 | |
Buddy is a novel by M. H. Herlong. It won the award for William Allen White Children's Book Award in 2015 (Grades 6–8).
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Plot
Tyrone "Li'l T" Roberts meets Buddy when his family's car unintentionally hits the stray dog on their way to church. Buddy ends up being the pet dog Li'l T's constantly wanted, until Hurricane Katrina comes to New Orleans and he needs to leave Buddy. After the tempest, Li'l T and his dad return home to discover a group attempting to reconstruct their lives, and Buddy gone. Yet, Li'l T declines to surrender his mission to locate his closest companion.
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Buddy (Herlong novel) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA