Jo's Old Site

This book was written by Cynthia Chapman Willis and kept my interest all the way through. It was originally published by Feiwel and Friends but the book also has the Square Fish logo on it too and this is an imprint of Macmillan. 

Also the ISBN numbers for this book is ISBN-13: 978 0 312 56113 0 and ISBN-10: 0 312 56113 X. The story was about a girl called Dill MacGregor who is grieving along with everyone else in her family as her mother had died of some sort of cancer.

Dill is also the only child. And her best friend who is Cub tries to do anything he can, he also comes from a large family, and as I read further I discovered that he learnt to appreciate his brothers more as he realizes Dill’s difficulty of being the only child.

Dill’s father has also got rid of all his deceased wife’s animals, except for a husky crossbred who they named Dead End who goes wandering and Dill and Cub is desperate to find him. And some of her dad’s decisions upsets his daughter who is determined to keep everything the way her mum had left it.

But while they are looking for Dead End they overheard some adults talking about a dog pack killing sheep. And even though the last time they saw Dead End he had something that looked like blood on his coat Dill refuses to believe that Dead End is apart of this pack of dogs as he was her mother’s dog. Dill also has bad feelings about hospitals too, and she didn’t want G.D her grandfather to go to hospital even though he was sick because she feared that she would lose him too.

As a result he didn’t go when the general practitioner advised it but in the end he did as he was in quite a bit of pain. He also advises Dill to face things head on.

And though this is good advice Dill gets herself in a mess because she didn’t tell G.D the truth about Dead End, perhaps because she wanted to convince herself that there was another yellow husky type dog around. She also keeps Dead End’s disappearance from her father too.