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Publisher: Orca, 2009
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Junkyard Dogs is an emotional story about family. It’s a story about the weight of responsibilities and expectations. Your heart breaks, but Josh’s story is about perseverance and love. Keep reading this book review for my full thoughts.
Summary
Josh’s father has gone missing without a trace. Now Josh and his 9-year-old brother, Twig, are stuck living with Gran in her trailer. Problem is, Gran didn’t ask to take care of any kids, and she’s threatening to call social services unless Josh can find his dad. After paying off Gran to take in his little brother, Josh risks truancy and getting kicked off his basketball team to take to the streets and hunt for his dad. But when Josh digs too deep, he suddenly finds himself tethered to a criminal scrapping ring that his father was accomplice to. If Josh wants to keep Twig out of the system and return to some sense of normal, he’ll have to track his dad down and demand honest answers.
Review
(Disclaimer: I received this book from the publisher. This has not impacted my review which is unbiased and honest.)
Junkyard Dogs is a book that I had to take a few breaks from during reading. It’s emotionally heavy about growing up too soon and the pressures of early responsibility. While
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JUNKYARD DOGS
In rural Absaroka County, Wyo., where Sheriff Walt Longmire keeps an uneasy peace, junk isn’t always junk. It’s often worse.
Geo Stewart, 72, is the kind of man broken bones happen to. That’s old news to the docs at Durant Memorial Hospital. This time, however, along with a fractured clavicle—the result of being drawn some distance roped to the rear of an ancient Oldsmobile—Geo has a bit of unsettling news for the docs, who will pass it on to Sheriff Longmire, whose life it will immeasurably complicate. When he’s not in the hospital, Geo is steward of the Durant dump, which he prefers to call the “Municipal Solid Waste Facility.” In this capacity, he’s found a severed thumb. Since no one has reported it missing, Sheriff Walt has a mystery on his hands. And since nothing is ever as easy in Absaroka County as counting noses, or digits, the mystery will only deepen and develop links to other local mysteries, such as exactly what kind of crop is being harvested in a certain Durant basement, or who’s responsible for the sudden surge in the county homicide rate. Or, knottiest of all, what to do about the unseemly, ongoing romantic comedy starring grizzled, wintry Walt and Deputy Victoria Moretti, his feisty, foul-mouthed, adorable girl of summer.
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