The Dogs of Winter (27 page)

Bobbie Pyron is the author of
A Dog's Way Home
, which received a starred review in
Publishers Weekly
and was named to the Spring 2011 Indie Next List. She lives in Park City, Utah, and works as a librarian in Salt Lake City. Visit her online at
www.bobbiepyron.com
.

Text copyright © 2012 by Bobbie Pyron

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First edition, October 2012

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Pyron, Bobbie.

The dogs of winter / by Bobbie Pyron. — 1st ed.

p. cm.

Summary: Brought to Moscow in 1990s Russia by his mother's abusive boyfriend, five-year-old Mishka is forced by a gang of homeless children to lie and steal until he finds comfort and love with a pack of dogs. Includes historical note.

ISBN 978-0-545-39930-2 (hardcover: alk. paper) [1. Street children — Fiction. 2. Homeless persons — Fiction. 3. Human-animal relationships — Fiction. 4. Dogs — Fiction. 5. Gangs — Fiction. 6. Moscow (Russia) — Fiction. 7. Russia (Federation) — Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.P999Dno 2012

[Fic] — dc23

2011051519

Cover art © 2012 by Bagram Ibatoulline

Cover design by Whitney Lyle

e-ISBN: 978-0-545-46985-2

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