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Strongheart: Wonder Dog of the Silver Screen
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  • Published: 6 February 2018
  • ISBN: 9781101934128
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Childrens
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256

Strongheart: Wonder Dog of the Silver Screen

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EBook
6 Feb 2018
Audiobook
2 May 2023
Paperback
12 Mar 2024
Hardback
15 Feb 2018
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For fans of Balto and other real-life dog stories, here's a heavily illustrated middle-grade novel about a canine movie star of the 1920s, dramatically told in both words and pictures by an acclaimed author and a Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator.

When movie director Larry Trimble travels to Berlin searching for his next big star--a dog!--he finds Etzel, a fierce, highly trained three-year-old German shepherd police dog. Larry sees past the snarls and growls and brings Etzel back to Hollywood, where he is renamed Strongheart. Along with screenwriter Jane Murfin, Larry grooms his protégé to be a star of the silver screen--and he succeeds, starting with Strongheart's first film, The Love Master, which is released in 1921. Strongheart is soon joined by a leading lady, a German shepherd named Lady Julie, and becomes a sensation.

Touching, charming, playful, and based on real events, this moving tale by Candace Fleming and illustrated by Eric Rohmann tells all about "the wonder dog" who took America by storm.

A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF 2018
A CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF 2018
  • Published: 6 February 2018
  • ISBN: 9781101934128
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Childrens
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256
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About the author

Candace Fleming

Candace Fleming is the award-winning author of more than fifty books for children and young adults. The recipient of the American Library Association’s Children’s Literature Legacy Award and Margaret A. Edwards Award, she has written many acclaimed nonfiction titles, including Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown, winner of the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award; Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime, which received four starred reviews; The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh, also a YALSA recipient; and The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia, which won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was recognized as a Sibert Nonfiction Honor Book. Her beloved picture books include Giant Squid, a Sibert Honor Book, and Oh, No!, which received three starred reviews.
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Death in the Jungle
Narwhal
Mine!
Murder Among Friends
The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh
Eleanor Roosevelt's in My Garage!
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