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When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.

"These stories will last," said Raymond Carver of Shiloh and Other Stories when it was first published, and almost two decades later this stunning fiction debut and winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award has become a modern American classic. In Shiloh, Bobbie Ann Mason introduces us to her western Kentucky people and the lives they forge for themselves amid the ups and downs of contemporary American life, and she poignantly captures the growing pains of the New South in the lives of her characters as they come to terms with feminism, R-rated movies, and video games. "Bobbie Ann Mason is one of those rare writers who, by concentrating their attention on a few square miles of native turf, are able to open up new and surprisingly wide worlds for the delighted reader," said Robert Towers in The New York Review of Books.

Author biography, chapter summaries, discussion questions, vocabulary builders, reproducibles, cross-curricular activities for students of all learning styles for the novels: Island of the blue dolphins by Scott O'Dell -- Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink -- Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George -- Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson -- Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor --The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks -- The Cay by Theodore Taylor -- Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli -- Number the Stars by Lois Lowry.

Shiloh and his mother share an unbreakable bond. Alone they may be few but together they are many. The love they share is more powerful than anything in the world. And after reading their story of happiness and belonging, you'll understand, just as much as they do, how important it is to be family.

Teaching literature unit based on the popular children's story, Shiloh.