"The trouble started at dinner the night before Peter Lubinsky's twelfth birthday." " Peter was the quiet one, the one who avoided drama and conflict." But when his sisters, Izzy and Celia, were so upset missing his dad, who was serving his third deployment in seven years, Peter knew he had to say/do something to break the web of sadness. He said he wanted a dog for his birthday...He was scared to death of dogs! But a stray at a local shelter, who is in reality a magician's dog, has somehow spoken to Peter to say he wanted a dog and manipulated Peter to choose him from the pound. Not Darling needs Peter to work magic on his master...to change him back from the rock he has become. The dog has promised Peter that perhaps the magician will then help him bring his dad home or at least keep him safe. The problem is that Peter, as the magician himself, must be mean and angry for the magic to work. Will Peter be forced to be forever changed...like the magician? Will he be successful? Will his father return? This story certainly tugs at the heart strings...and the funny bone...
"You can't find the right answers unless you ask the right questions."
"Everyone feels fear...but fear isn't what matters. It's the choices you make when you're afraid that matter; that's what you can control."
"Don't let other people tell what's a problem or impossible."
Mark Twain Award Preliminary Nominee 2015-16
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