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Plourde, Lynn.
MAXI'S SECRETS : (OR WHAT YOU CAN LEARN FROM A DOG)
New York : Nancy Paulsen, 2016
IL 5-8, RL 5.5
ISBN
0399545670


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Timminy knows that moving to a new town just in time to start middle school when you are perfect bully bait is less than ideal. But he gets a great consolation prize in Maxi--a gentle giant of a dog who the family quickly discovers is deaf. Timminy is determined to do all he can to help Maxi--after all, his parents didn't return him because he was a runt. But when the going gets rough for Timminy, who spends a little too much time getting shoved into lockers at school, Maxi ends up being the one to help him--along with their neighbor, Abby, who doesn't let her blindness define her and bristles at Timminy's "poor-me" attitude. It turns out there's more to everyone than what's on the surface, whether it comes to Abby, Maxi, or even Timminy himself. (Sunshine State Young Readers Award Books 2017-2018)


SUBJECTS:    Dogs -- Fiction.
                        Friendship -- Fiction.
                        Middle schools -- Fiction.
                        Schools -- Fiction.
                        Size -- Fiction.


 
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