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Laurie Calkhoven
122 pages
Appeals to 3rd-6th graders. Reading level: Grade 4
Summary: Born in Shanghai, China in 1936, Judy is an English pointer who finds her place on a English gunboat patrolling the Yangtze River, battling pirates, contending with the Japanese occupiers, and protecting her human shipmates--until they all end up in a Japanese prison camp in Sumatra at the beginning of World War II, where every day is a struggle to survive. Based on the story of a real dog in World War II, and told from the dog's point of view
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