'The ice was slippery. Her paws kept splaying outwards until the cold of the ice on her belly made her tiptoe back up to her full height . . . Someone on the bridge threw a lump of coal at her. It skidded across the whiteness, leaving a black trail, then plopped into a fissure: the ice was breaking up.'
Clay and his brother, Hal, rescue a struggling dog from the icy River Thames. But back on dry land their father refuses to take her in - the new Dog Tax means she's too expensive to keep. As skinners sharpen their knives, ready to make money from pelts just like hers, the boys determine to save her - at whatever cost . . .
- ISBN10 1405660074
- ISBN13 9781405660075
- Publish Date 6 December 2004 (first published 16 October 2003)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 November 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher AudioGO Limited
- Imprint Galaxy
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 132
- Language English