# The Junkyard Dog

**Author:** Erika Tamar
**Grade range:** Grades 3–5
**Age range:** 8–10
**First published:** 1997
**Page count:** 185
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780590109024`
**ISBN-10:** `0590109022`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-junkyard-dog
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

With the advice of her stepfather, eleven-year-old Katie takes on the job of feeding an abused junkyard dog and building it a doghouse for shelter during the hard winter.

## Themes

- stepfamily
- stories
- pets
- stepfathers

## Where this book is assigned

### Virginia Readers' Choice

- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1999-2000 winner (Elementary)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1999-2000 winner (Elementary)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1999-2000 winner (Elementary)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)

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