What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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SOLVED. YA book. girl who has some issues at home. She gets sent to a camp over the summer that also works with dogs, she falls in love with this large dog. They go out in a canoe together; spoilers in the comments. Read around 2012-2014
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Mar 10, 2022 06:11PM
I believe she steals her step dads truck and wrecks it. In the end it is revealed (she remembers) her dad taking pictures of her as a child (porn) and had a lock box in his office of her Polaroid photos.
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Are you positive? Everything matches. I can't imagine there's another book with this same storyline.Her father had a shoe box of child pornography, photos of her as a young child.
"My father took photos," I tell her, gripping the counter for balance. "Polaroids. At his restaurant. After it closed every Tuesday and Thursday night. It started before I can even remember."
"Where were the pictures taken?" the cop asked. "In the storeroom. At my father's restaurant. By my father." "Was anyone else ever in the room with you while the pictures were taken?"
I must find the pictures first. And when I find them, I'll burn them. Every last one of them. And the Hush Puppies shoe box I know they're stacked in. Dad probably thought he was a real class act, sticking with old-fashioned, expensive Polaroid photography even when digital became the norm.
Camp Dog Gone Fun isn’t one of those ridiculous rich- doggie spas that you see in magazines either. There are no 3 Heather Waldorf canine treadmills or therapy baths. No animal masseuse or pet psychic is on call. Bottom line, all the canine campers at Camp Dog Gone Fun are rejects from the River View Animal Shelter in Gananoque, Ontario. Dogs who, because of old age or disability or "quirky" behavioral issues, are impossible to adopt out.
Each summer, the program director—a veterinarian everyone calls Dr. Fred (even his wife)—ferries the dogs here to Moose Island on the St. Lawrence River for a "wilderness" respite from the shelter. He can’t afford to hire real staff, so he brings over a bunch of community service kids too and calls us "volunteers." So when exactly did my life, as we say here at Camp Dog Gone Fun, go to the dogs? At my sentencing, the judge told me that Camp DGF is where "kids like you" are sent.
"That was Judy. She's half St. Bernard, half Newfie." "And a few crumbs short of a Milkbone." Nicholas guffaws. "She's only eighteen months old. Still a pup," Dr. Fred explains.
As part of Judy's "program," I paddle around the island each evening in an old beat-up aluminum canoe while Judy swims beside me. We never travel too far from the island.
It is it is! Thank you! What I was reading online didn’t seem to be but that’s it! You’re a awesome person!! I have been racking my (post pregnancy) brain trying to remember! Ugh thank you so much! It was a very good read all those years ago!
