Lucky Phoo
Stacia Deutsch and Rhody Cohon
Genre: Children’s Mid
Grade
Publisher: Imajin Books
Date of Publication:
August 1, 2013
Number of pages: 109
Word Count: 43,000
Cover Artist: Ryan Doan
Book Description:
Seventh grade best
friends, Caylie Jiang-Kahn, Lauren Blindell, and Sabrina Robinson
have busy middle school lives.
Sabrina wants to make a
movie about their friendship, but a stray dog shows up and ruins the
day. In frustration, Lauren curses, “Oh Phooey.” The name sticks.
The crazy mutt will forever be named Phoo.
Sabrina pieces together
bits of the footage she shot. She highlights Phoo’s silly antics
and puts the video up on a movie contest website.
The video goes viral and
suddenly, Lauren, Caylie, and Sabrina are celebrities at school. When
a volunteer at the dog shelter sees the film, she assumes the dog
belongs to the girls and calls them to come collect Phoo.
The girls arrange to take
turns caring for Phoo until he can be adopted.
While sharing Phoo,
Caylie, Sabrina and Lauren begin to notice that if the dog is around,
lucky things seem to happen. The moment he’s gone…the luck
disappears.
When they all need the
dog’s magic at the same time, it’s up to the girls to decide once
and for all: Is Phoo truly a lucky dog?
Review
blurbs for LUCKY PHOO
“With
punchy dialogue and a fast moving pace, LUCKY PHOO takes readers on a
wild adventure as three friends try to share fostering duties of a
lovable stray dog.” —Marianne Mitchell, author of FIREBUG
“Stacia
Deutsch and Rhody Cohon are two very best friends who write books
together, which is very lucky for their readers. You’ll want to
share LUCKY PHOO with all your friends, too!” —Jennifer
J. Stewart, author of CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF A THIRD WORLD KIND,
Connecticut Nutmeg Book Award List;
Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award List; Arizona Grand Canyon
Reader Award List
"LUCKY PHOO is a
great story about friendship, love and responsibility--Phoo, the
lucky dog who wanders into Sabrina's, Caylie's and Lauren's world is
indeed lucky--although maybe not as lucky as these girls whose
life he changes." —Terry
Trueman, Printz Honor Author of STUCK IN NEUTRAL
Mrs.
Salinas was ready to go. “So if you girls are sure you can’t take
him any longer, I’ll just head on over to the van―” She took a
few steps forward then turned back to the girls. “You’re sure
you can’t foster him any longer?”
“I
can’t,” Sabrina said, her voice tight and sad.
“Not
me,” Lauren confirmed.
“I
might be able to squeeze out another weekend,” Caylie said, “but
we’d be back here on Monday.”
“Right,”
Mrs. Salinas said. “And at least this way he has a chance of
getting adopted in Fresno.”
She
took a few more steps towards the van. The rain, to Lauren, seemed to
be coming down harder. The drops blended in with her tears now. And
looking at Caylie and Sabrina, Lauren couldn’t tell, but was pretty
sure they were crying, too.
Mrs.
Salina’s stopped one more time, just at the edge of the parking
lot. “It was great having him,” she said. “Wasn’t it?”
“Yeah,”
Lauren agreed. “Great.”
“We
had fun,” Caylie said.
“Fun,”
Sabrina repeated the word. “Yeah. We had a good time.”
Mrs.
Salinas nodded. “I thought so.” She looked down at the dog, then
back at the girls. “Tell me,” she said, her voice soft, drippy
like the rain. “Weren’t things better when Phoo was around?”
The
remark caught Lauren off-guard. What was Mrs. Salinas talking about?
“I
think she’s right,” Lauren said, turning to Caylie and Sabrina.
“Things have been going better than usual for me lately.”
“You
don’t think he might have some kind of powers?” Sabrina looked
over at Mrs. Salinas who was now at the van, loading Phoo inside.
“Well,”
Caylie said, considering.
“I
think maybe,” Lauren said tentatively. “I saw this show about
luck and how―” Lauren stopped herself mid-sentence when she saw
Mrs. Salinas push Phoo into an empty carrying cage. His voice joined
the choir of barking dogs and was the loudest of them all.
In a
sudden move, the girls rushed forward to stop the truck, shouting
together, “Mrs. Salinas! Wait!”
About the New York
Times Best Selling Authors:
Rhody Cohon wishes she
could adopt a million pets! Until her house is big enough she'll
pamper the few she has and help others find the perfect home.
Stacia Deutsch sits at the
keyboard crafting stories all day and then, plays with her own crazy,
lucky, dog at night. She and her three kids live in Southern
California. You can visit Stacia at www.staciadeutsch.com
or on twitter at @staciadeutsch.
Twitter: @staciadeutsch
Facebook:
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or www.facebook.com/luckyphoo
to post your own pet photos and videos
Goodreads:
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