Book Description
Product Description
When Tim finds an abandoned and bedraggled little dog outside his house, he can't just leave him there, even though his parents hate the idea of pets in their house. And then the endearing animal turns out to be Grk, the much loved pet of the recently replaced ambassador of Stanislavia, left behind when they made a rushed (and enforced) exit. Tim innocently wants to reunite them, but it means that he will become embroiled in the violent and dangerous politics of this little known East European country. To find them, he will have to break into a high security prison (and out again!) and escape from the consequent hue and cry. This will involve the hair-raising piloting of a helicopter, and a nail-biting race for the border. Could this be the new 007?
A Dog Called Grk is Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award.
(20040624)From the Back Cover
What would you do if you found a dog in the street? Would you return
him to his owners? Even if they were a thousand miles away - and in
prison?
Tim finds a stray dog on the way home from school, but his parents
refuse to let it into their house. He knows what he has to do. He sneaks
out of the house in the middle of the night with the dog, and catches a taxi to
the airport, then a plane to Eastern Europe... He will have to break into a high security prison, pilot a helicopter, and make a nail-biting run for the border in his high-octane adventure with a dog called Grk.
