# Summer of Riley

**Author:** Eve Bunting
**Grade range:** Grades 3–5
**Age range:** 8–10
**First published:** 2001
**Page count:** 170
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780756913663`
**ISBN-10:** `0756913667`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/summer-of-riley
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Shortly after he gets the perfect dog, Riley, eleven-year-old William must fight for his dog's life after Riley is taken away because he chases and injures an elderly neighbor's old horse.

## Themes

- divorce
- divorce in fiction
- oregon in fiction
- dogs in fiction

## Where this book is assigned

### Virginia Readers' Choice

- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 2003-2004 winner (Elementary)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 2003-2004 winner (Elementary)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 2003-2004 winner (Elementary)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)

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