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Lucky Phoo
Stacia Deutsch and Rhody Cohon
Stacia Deutsch and Rhody Cohon
Genre:
Children’s Mid Grade
Publisher:
Imajin Books
Date
of Publication: August 1, 2013
Number
of pages: 109
Word
Count: 43,000
Cover
Artist: Ryan Doan
Book
Description:
Seventh
grade best friends, Caylie Jiang-Kahn, Lauren Blindell, and Sabrina Robinson
have busy middle school lives.
Sabrina
wants to make a movie about their friendship, but a stray dog shows up and
ruins the day. In frustration, Lauren curses, “Oh Phooey.” The name sticks. The
crazy mutt will forever be named Phoo.
Sabrina
pieces together bits of the footage she shot. She highlights Phoo’s silly
antics and puts the video up on a movie contest website.
The
video goes viral and suddenly, Lauren, Caylie, and Sabrina are celebrities at
school. When a volunteer at the dog shelter sees the film, she assumes the dog
belongs to the girls and calls them to come collect Phoo.
The
girls arrange to take turns caring for Phoo until he can be adopted.
While
sharing Phoo, Caylie, Sabrina and Lauren begin to notice that if the dog is
around, lucky things seem to happen. The moment he’s gone…the luck disappears.
When
they all need the dog’s magic at the same time, it’s up to the girls to decide
once and for all: Is Phoo truly a lucky dog?
Review
blurbs for LUCKY PHOO
“With
punchy dialogue and a fast moving pace, LUCKY PHOO takes readers on a wild
adventure as three friends try to share fostering duties of a lovable stray
dog.” —Marianne Mitchell, author of FIREBUG
“Stacia
Deutsch and Rhody Cohon are two very best friends who write books together,
which is very lucky for their readers. You’ll want to share LUCKY PHOO with all
your friends, too!” —Jennifer J. Stewart, author of CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF A THIRD
WORLD KIND, Connecticut Nutmeg Book Award List; Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book
Award List; Arizona Grand Canyon Reader Award List
"LUCKY PHOO is a great story about friendship, love and
responsibility--Phoo, the lucky dog who wanders into Sabrina's, Caylie's and
Lauren's world is indeed lucky--although maybe not as lucky as these
girls whose life he changes." —Terry Trueman, Printz Honor Author of STUCK
IN NEUTRAL
"Okay, full disclosure: I LOVE good, strong, dog stories--Lucky Phoo is
precisely one of those!" —Terry Trueman, Printz Honor Author of STUCK IN
NEUTRAL
Excerpt:
Mrs. Salinas was ready to go. “So if you girls are sure
you can’t take him any longer, I’ll just head on over to the van―” She took a
few steps forward then turned back to the girls.
“You’re sure you can’t foster
him any longer?”
“I can’t,” Sabrina said, her voice tight and sad.
“Not me,” Lauren confirmed.
“I might be able to squeeze out another weekend,” Caylie
said, “but we’d be back here on Monday.”
“Right,” Mrs. Salinas said. “And at least this way he has
a chance of getting adopted in Fresno.”
She took a few more steps towards the van. The rain, to
Lauren, seemed to be coming down harder. The drops blended in with her tears
now. And looking at Caylie and Sabrina, Lauren couldn’t tell, but was pretty
sure they were crying, too.
Mrs. Salina’s stopped one more time, just at the edge of
the parking lot. “It was great having him,” she said. “Wasn’t it?”
“Yeah,” Lauren agreed. “Great.”
“We had fun,” Caylie said.
“Fun,” Sabrina repeated the word. “Yeah. We had a good
time.”
Mrs. Salinas nodded. “I thought so.” She looked down at
the dog, then back at the girls. “Tell me,” she said, her voice soft, drippy
like the rain. “Weren’t things better when Phoo was around?”
The remark caught Lauren off-guard. What was Mrs. Salinas
talking about?
“I think she’s right,” Lauren said, turning to Caylie and
Sabrina. “Things have been going better than usual for me lately.”
“You don’t think he might have some kind of powers?”
Sabrina looked over at Mrs. Salinas who was now at the van, loading Phoo
inside.
“Well,” Caylie said, considering.
“I think maybe,” Lauren said tentatively. “I saw this
show about luck and how―” Lauren stopped herself mid-sentence when she saw Mrs.
Salinas push Phoo into an empty carrying cage. His voice joined the choir of
barking dogs and was the loudest of them all.
In a sudden move, the girls rushed forward to stop the
truck, shouting together, “Mrs. Salinas! Wait!”
About
the New York Times Best Selling Authors:
Rhody
Cohon wishes she could adopt a million pets! Until her house is big enough
she'll pamper the few she has and help others find the perfect home.
Find
Rhody at www.rhodycohon.com.
Stacia
Deutsch sits at the keyboard crafting stories all day
and then, plays with her
own crazy, lucky, dog at night. She and her three kids live in Southern
California. You can visit Stacia at www.staciadeutsch.com
or on twitter at @staciadeutsch.
Website:
www.staciadeutsch.com, www.rhodycohon.com
Twitter:
@staciadeutsch
Facebook:
www.facebook.com/staciadeutsch or www.facebook.com/luckyphoo
to post your own pet photos and videos
LinkedIn:
www.linkedin.com/in/sfdeutsch/
Goodreads:
http://www.goodreads.com/staciadeutsch
AuthorCentral: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B002BMB0UE
Thanks for the giveaway
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the great excerpt and the giveaway. Sounds like a great book. evamillien at gmail dot com
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