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Text © 2013 by Alison Hart
Illustrations © 2013 by Michael G. Montgomery
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Cover design by Nicola Simmonds Carmack
Print book design by Melanie McMahon Ives
Cover illustration rendered in oil on canvas board; interior illustrations in pencil. Title, byline, and chapter headings typeset in Hoefler & Frere-Jones’s Whitney fonts by Tobias Frere-Jones; text typeset in Adobe’s Garamond by Robert Slimbach.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Hart, Alison, 1950–
Darling, mercy dog of World War I / by Alison Hart.
pages cm
Summary: In Cosham, England, in 1917, Darling, a mischievous collie, must leave the children who love her when she is chosen for training as a mercy dog, seeking out injured soldiers on the battlefield and leading medics to them.
ISBN-13: 978-1-56145-705-2 / ISBN-10: 1-56145-705-1
1. Collie—Juvenile fiction. 2. Search dogs—Juvenile fiction. [1. Collie—Fiction. 2. Search dogs—Fiction. 3. Dogs—War use—Fiction. 4. Soldiers—Fiction. 5. World War, 1914–1918—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ10.3.H247Dar 2013
[Fic]—dc23
2012050991