# Maxi’s Secrets: (Or, What You Can Learn from a Dog)

**Author:** Lynn Plourde
**Grade range:** Grades 3–5
**Age range:** 8–10
**First published:** 2016
**Page count:** 274
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780399545672`
**ISBN-10:** `0399545670`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/maxis-secrets
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

When a BIG, lovable, does-it-her-way dog wiggles her way into the heart of a loudmouth pipsqueak of a boy, wonderful things happen that help him become a bigger, better person. With its diverse cast, authentic narrator, and perfect blend of spot-on middle-grade humor, drama, and wisdom, this powerful debut is relatable, funny, bittersweet, and full of heart. Timminy knows that moving to a new town just in time to start middle school when you are perfect bully bait is less than ideal.

## Where this book is assigned

### Maine Student Book Award

- **recommended** · 4th grade · Maine — [source: Maine Student Book Award — past winners, 2018 winner (grades 4-8)](https://sites.google.com/view/mainestudentbookaward/past-lists)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Maine — [source: Maine Student Book Award — past winners, 2018 winner (grades 4-8)](https://sites.google.com/view/mainestudentbookaward/past-lists)
- **recommended** · 6th grade · Maine — [source: Maine Student Book Award — past winners, 2018 winner (grades 4-8)](https://sites.google.com/view/mainestudentbookaward/past-lists)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Maine — [source: Maine Student Book Award — past winners, 2018 winner (grades 4-8)](https://sites.google.com/view/mainestudentbookaward/past-lists)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Maine — [source: Maine Student Book Award — past winners, 2018 winner (grades 4-8)](https://sites.google.com/view/mainestudentbookaward/past-lists)

### Nebraska Golden Sower Award

- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Nebraska — [source: Nebraska Library Association — Golden Sower Award past winners, 2019 winner (Chapter Book)](https://nlc.nebraska.gov/Youth/GoldenSowerPastWinnersandNominees.pdf)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · Nebraska — [source: Nebraska Library Association — Golden Sower Award past winners, 2019 winner (Chapter Book)](https://nlc.nebraska.gov/Youth/GoldenSowerPastWinnersandNominees.pdf)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Nebraska — [source: Nebraska Library Association — Golden Sower Award past winners, 2019 winner (Chapter Book)](https://nlc.nebraska.gov/Youth/GoldenSowerPastWinnersandNominees.pdf)

### Young Hoosier Book Award

- **recommended** · 4th grade · Indiana — [source: Indiana Library Federation — Young Hoosier Book Award past winners, 2019 winner (Intermediate)](https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ilfonline.org/resource/resmgr/yhba/yhba_pastwinners.pdf)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Indiana — [source: Indiana Library Federation — Young Hoosier Book Award past winners, 2019 winner (Intermediate)](https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ilfonline.org/resource/resmgr/yhba/yhba_pastwinners.pdf)
- **recommended** · 6th grade · Indiana — [source: Indiana Library Federation — Young Hoosier Book Award past winners, 2019 winner (Intermediate)](https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ilfonline.org/resource/resmgr/yhba/yhba_pastwinners.pdf)

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