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Because of Winn-Dixie

Because of Winn-Dixie

Kate DiCamillo

Hardcover

General Juvenile Fiction

ISBN10: 0763607762
ISBN13: 9780763607760
Publisher: Candlewick Pr
Published: Mar 1 2000
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.00 Width: 0.00 Depth: 7.25
Language: English
Awards: Black-Eyed Susan Award, Bluebonnet Awards, Bookseller's Choice, Book Sense Book of the Year Award, California Young Reader Medal, Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award, Children's Book Committee Award, Children's Book Committee Award, Children's Books of Distinction Awards, Colorado Blue Spruce Award, Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award, Flicker Tale Children's Book Award, Golden Archer Award, Great Stone Face Book Award, Iowa Children's Choice (ICCA) Award, Land of Enchantment Book Award, Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award, Maine Student Book Award, Massachusetts Children's Book Award, Nene Award, Newbery Medal, North Carolina Children's Book Award, Parents Choice Award (Fall) (1998-2007), Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize, Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award, Sasquatch Award, Sequoyah Book Awards, SIBA Book Award, South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award, South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award, Sunshine State Young Reader's Award, Virginia Readers Choice Award, Volunteer State Book Awards, West Virginia Children's Book Award, William Allen White Childens Book Award, Young Reader's Choice Award
An unforgettable first novel about coming of age one sweet summer--and learning to love what you have.

The summer Opal and her father, the preacher, move to Naomi, Florida, Opal goes into the Winn-Dixie supermarket--and comes out with a dog. A big, ugly, suffering dog with a sterling sense of humor. A dog she dubs Winn-Dixie. Because of Winn-Dixie, the preacher tells Opal ten things about her absent mother, one for each year Opal has been alive. Winn-Dixie is better at making friends than anyone Opal has ever known, and together they meet the local librarian, Miss Franny Block, who once fought off a bear with a copy of WAR AND PEACE. They meet Gloria Dump, who is nearly blind but sees with her heart, and Otis, an ex-con who sets the animals in his pet shop loose after hours, then lulls them with his guitar.

Opal spends all that sweet summer collecting stories about her new friends and thinking about her mother. But because of Winn-Dixie or perhaps because she has grown, Opal learns to let go, just a little, and that friendship--and forgiveness--can sneak up on you like a sudden summer storm.

Recalling the fiction of Harper Lee and Carson McCullers, here is a funny, poignant, and utterly genuine first novel from a major new talent.

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