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PEACHTREE PUBLISHERS
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Atlanta, Georgia 30318-2112
Text © 2014 by Alison Hart
Illustrations © 2014 by Michael G. Montgomery
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Cover illustration rendered in oil on canvas board; interior illustrations in pencil and watercolor.
Cover design by Nicola Simmonds Carmack
Print book design by Melanie McMahon Ives
The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Hart, Alison, 1950–
Murphy, Gold Rush dog / by Alison Hart ; illustrated by Michael Montgomery.
pages cm
ISBN: 978-1-56145-769-4
Summary: “In 1900, a dog named Murphy wants to help Sally and Mama build a new life in Nome, but life in the mining town is not easy. Can the three of them find a home—and maybe a fortune?”— Provided by publisher.
1. Dogs—Juvenile fiction. [1. Dogs—Fiction. 2. Gold mines and mining—Fiction. 3. Nome (Alaska)—Gold discoveries—Fiction.] I. Montgomery, Michael, 1952– illustrator. II. Title.
PZ10.3.H247Mu 2014
[Fic]—dc23
2013049354