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How To Steal A Dog
''How to Steal a Dog'' is a book written by Barbara O'Connor. It was written in 2007 and also has a 2014 film adaption. Plot Georgina Hayes, her brother Toby, and their parents lived happily in an apartment in Darby, North Carolina until her father leaves their family. Their limited income results in Georgina and her family being evicted from the apartment, and since then, they have lived in their car and in poverty. Her schoolwork and social life both suffer due to this, but she doesn’t tell anyone about the circumstance. She tells her best friend Luanne Godfrey about this and urges her to keep it secret, but soon finds a way to get money and a new place to live after seeing a reward for a missing dog: Steal one, "return it", and claim the reward money, which she hopes to be five hundred dollars. Throughout the novel Georgina also writes down un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
How To Steal A Dog (film)
''How to Steal a Dog'' () is a 2014 South Korean film directed by Kim Sung-ho, based on the novel of the same name by Barbara O'Connor. Plot Ten-year-old Ji-so lives in a car with her mother Jeong-hyeon and younger brother Ji-seok. Her father disappeared after their pizza business went bankrupt. When she sees a missing dog poster with a five-hundred-dollar reward, Ji-so naively believes that that amount of money would be enough to buy her family a house. So she hatches a plan with her brother to find a dog with a rich owner, steal it, and then return the dog by pretending to have found it and get the reward. Their target is Wolly, the dog of an old rich lady who owns the street where their car was parked. While undertaking their "perfect" plan, they befriend Dae-po, a homeless man who ends up living in the abandoned building where they've stashed the dog. But someone else is after Wolly: Soo-young, the old lady's nephew, who'll stop at nothing to gain his aunt's inheritance. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara O'Connor (author)
Barbara O'Connor (born November 9, 1950) is an American author of children's books. O'Connor was born and grew up in Greenville, SC. She lived in Duxbury, Massachusetts for 26 years, but now resides in Asheville, North Carolina. Her books have won awards including the Parents Choice Gold Award and being named ALA Notable Books. Her book ''How to Steal a Dog (novel), How to Steal a Dog'' has been optioned for a film. Bibliography Novels * ''Beethoven in Paradise'', 1997 * ''Me and Rupert Goody'', 1999 * ''Taking Care of Moses'', 2004 * ''Moonpie and Ivy'', 2004 * ''How to Steal a Dog (novel), How to Steal a Dog'', 2007 * ''Fame and Glory in Freedom, Georgia'', 2003 * ''Greetings from Nowhere'', 2008 * ''The Small Adventure of Popeye and Elvis'', 2009 * ''The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester'', 2010 * ''On the Road to Mr. Mineo’s'', 2012 *''Wish, 2016'' *''Wonderland'', 2018 *''Halfway to Harmony'', 2021 Biographies * ''Mammolina: A Story about Maria Montessori'', 1993 * ''Up i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 contiguous states border Canada to the north and Mexico to the south, with the semi-exclave of Alaska in the northwest and the archipelago of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. The United States asserts sovereignty over five Territories of the United States, major island territories and United States Minor Outlying Islands, various uninhabited islands in Oceania and the Caribbean. It is a megadiverse country, with the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, third-largest land area and List of countries and dependencies by population, third-largest population, exceeding 340 million. Its three Metropolitan statistical areas by population, largest metropolitan areas are New York metropolitan area, New York, Greater Los Angeles, Los Angel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darby, North Carolina
Darby is an unincorporated community in Wilkes County, North Carolina Wilkes County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is a part of the state's western western North Carolina, mountain region. The population was 65,969 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. ..., United States. History Darby was named for Darby Hendrix, a pioneer settler. References Unincorporated communities in Wilkes County, North Carolina Unincorporated communities in North Carolina {{WilkesCountyNC-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homelessness
Homelessness, also known as houselessness or being unhoused or unsheltered, is the condition of lacking stable, safe, and functional housing. It includes living on the streets, moving between temporary accommodation with family or friends, living in boarding houses with no security of tenure, and people who leave their homes because of civil conflict and are refugees within their country. The legal status of homeless people varies from place to place. Homeless enumeration studies conducted by the government of the United States also include people who sleep in a public or private place that is not designed for use as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings. Homelessness and poverty are interrelated. There is no standardized method for counting homeless individuals and identifying their needs; consequently, most cities only have estimated figures for their homeless populations. In 2025, approximately 330 million people worldwide experience absolute homelessness, lac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
