Faith and the Electric Dogs

Patrick Jennings. Scholastic Paperbacks, $4.99 (144pp) ISBN 978-0-590-69769-9

Narrated by a Mexican street dog who befriends an unhappy girl and flies with her in a home-made rocket to an uncharted island, this first novel is ""a soaring flight into magic realism,"" said PW in a starred review. Ages 8-up. (June)

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