First edition.

248 pages ; 22 cm

Ages 10-14. Random House.

When a lost dog helps Laura find a way home to her family, they discover family in each other along the way.

Laura Rodríguez Colón has a plan: no matter what the grown-ups say, she will live with her parents again. Can you blame her? It's tough to make friends as the new kid at school. And while staying at her aunt's house is okay, it just isn't the same as being in her own space. So when Laura finds a puppy, it seems like fate. If she can train the puppy to become a therapy dog, then maybe she'll be allowed to visit her parents. Maybe the dog will help them get better and things will finally go back to the way they should be. After all, how do you explain to others that you're technically a foster kid, even though you live with your aunt? And most importantly . . . how do you explain that you're not where you belong, and you just want to go home?

Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.6 4 520948.

Foster home care -- Juvenile fiction.

Dysfunctional families -- Juvenile fiction.

Human-animal relationships -- Juvenile fiction.

Belonging (Social psychology) -- Juvenile fiction.

Dogs -- Juvenile fiction.

Puerto Ricans -- Juvenile fiction.

Family problems -- Fiction.

Human-animal relationships -- Ficiton.

Novels in verse.

Animal fiction.

Novels in verse.

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