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Burns, Catherine Lloyd

The Good, the Bad, and the Beagle

(4) 4-6 Veronica wants two things: to make friends with the popular girls at her new Manhattan private school and to adopt a beagle puppy named Cadbury. Both goals come with their own challenges. There are genuinely funny moments, but readers will be thrown off when what's packaged as comedy becomes a tragic--and melodramatic--story. Still, Veronica's journey back from grief is hopeful.

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