Copyright © 2012 by Randi Reisfeld
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First published in the United States of America in February 2012
by Bloomsbury Books for Young Readers
www.bloomsburykids.com

Electronic edition published in 2012

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Reisfeld, Randi.
What the dog said / by Randi Reisfeld with HB Gilmour. — 1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.
Summary: Shortly after their police officer father is killed in the line of duty,
thirteen-year-old Grace’s older sister decides to adopt a dog to train as a
service dog for a handicapped child so that she can write about it for her
college applications, but, true to form, it is the grief-stricken Grace who
ends up taking responsibility for the dog.
ISBN 978 1 59990 721 5 (ebook)
[1. Grief—Fiction. 2. Dogs—Training—Fiction. 3. Human—animal
communication—Fiction. 4. Fathers—Fiction. 5. Sisters—
Fiction.] I. Gilmour, HB (Harriet B.) II. Title.
PZ7.R277457Wh 2012 [Fic]—dc23 2011026031