“Unexpected, generous, and poignant.” —Huntley Fitzpatrick, author of
What I Thought Was True Sixteen-year-old Clair Taylor has neighbors who are what locals call whippoorwills, the kind of people who fill their yards with rusty junk. Clair tries to ignore her surroundings, choosing instead to dream of a future beyond her rural New Hampshire town. But, when a black dog named Wally is chained up to a pole next door, Clair can’t look the other way. Clair decides to save Wally, and the immediate connection she has with the lovable dog catches her off-guard, but even more surprising is her bond with eighteen-year-old Danny Stewart, the boy next door.
Two New Hampshire teenagers fall into an unlikely relationship as they come together to save a mistreated dog.Whippoorwillis a deeply poignant story about the virulent nature of abuse and the power of human empathy.
* "Narrator Clair is absolutely believable as the girl who’s stable yet also negotiating her own loss."
—The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, starred review
“An unexpected, generous and poignant portrait of a girl, a boy, and the dog who brings them together.”
—Huntley Fitzpatrick, author ofWhat I Thought Was True
"Masterful! Heartwarming! I read it in one sitting. I could not put it down. One of the best YA novels I have read in years."
—Roland Smith, bestselling author ofPeak
“Destined to become a classic. . .Whippoorwillis about the love and care and neglect and magical inter-species connections between an animal and members of a family, and it will both devastate and transform you. I love this book.”
—Luanne Rice,New York Timesbestselling author ofThe Lemon Orchard
“A bighearted, gorgeous, lH
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