Shiloh

ShilohEleven year old Marty Preston loves to spend time up in the hills behind his home near Friendly, West Virginia. Sometimes he takes his . 22 rifle to see what he can shoot, like some cans lined up on a rail fence. Other times he goes up early in the morning just to sit and watch the fox and deer. But one summer Sunday, Marty comes across something different on the road just past the old Shiloh schoolhouses a young beagle and the trouble begins. What do

Eleven-year-old Marty Preston loves to spend time up in the hills behind his home near Friendly, West Virginia. Sometimes he takes his .22 rifle to see what he can shoot, like some cans lined up on a rail fence. Other times he goes up early in the morning just to sit and watch the fox and deer. But one summer Sunday, Marty comes across something different on the road just past the old Shiloh schoolhouses -- a young beagle -- and the trouble begins.
What do you do when a dog you suspect is being mistreated runs away and comes to you? When it is someone else's dog? When the man who owns him has a gun? This is Marty's problem, and he finds it is one he has to face alone. When his solution gets too big for him to handle, things become more frightening still. Marty puts his courage on the line, and discovers in the process that it is not always easy to separate right from wrong. Sometimes, however, you do almost anything to save a dog.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 09/30/1991
ISBN: 9780689316142
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.72h x 5.82w x 0.65d
Award: Maine Student Book Award - Winner
Award: Grand Canyon Reader Award - Winner
Award: Nene Award - Winner
Award: Delaware Diamonds Award - Winner
Award: Great Stone Face Book Award - Winner
Award: Land of Enchantment Book Award - Winner
Award: West Virginia Children's Book Award - Winner
Award: Newbery Medal - Winner
Award: Bluebonnet Awards - Winner
Award: Young Reader's Choice Award - Winner

Review Citations: ALA Best Books Young Adults 01/01/1992 pg. 1369
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/1991 - Superior,Well Above Average
Publishers Weekly 07/12/1991
School Library Journal 09/01/1991

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 5440 / Shiloh
Reading Level: 4.4 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 4