"Set in the bizarre and beautiful port town of Alveridge, a fascinating place of unique clans and classes, where Felines struggle to maintain the upper hand. Bullied and misunderstood, Lonely Dog became a refugee in his own country. His was a hard scrabble life on the working class side of town...

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Main Author:	Clarke, Ivan (Author)
Other Authors:	Duval, Stu (Illustrator)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London Atlantic Books [2012]
Subjects:	Musik Dogs / Fiction Music / Fiction Loneliness / Fiction Musicians / Fiction Fantasy Loneliness Dogs Music Young adult fiction, New Zealand Children's fiction Fantasy fiction Fiction
Summary:	"Set in the bizarre and beautiful port town of Alveridge, a fascinating place of unique clans and classes, where Felines struggle to maintain the upper hand. Bullied and misunderstood, Lonely Dog became a refugee in his own country. His was a hard scrabble life on the working class side of town, where motorbike gangs mingled with milkmen and everything was faded, including dreams. The story follows Lonely Dog from abandonment at the Houndside Orphanage, steps through his emergence as a dapper, pin-stripe suited dog with a message of hope through his music"--Lonelydog website Arthur Snout is the 'Lonely Dog' -- an orphan hound growing up in Alveridgea, where cats and dogs live alongside each other, but on very different sides of the tracks. But just as Lonely finally finds some soulmates, the other houndlings bundle him out of the orphanage in the dead of night, and leave him deep in Catside! On the long journey home that ensues, Lonely realises that an underdog is never alone if he has a song in his heart and a guitar in his paws
Item Description:	Novel for young adults by New Zealand author and illustrator
Physical Description:	267 pages illustrations, map 25 cm
Audience:	Suggested level: intermediate, secondary
ISBN:	9781848873322 1848873328