A Dog Named God

By Lance Marcum

The last thing Peter Gilliam expected for his tenth birthday was a dog, especially one he finds drowning in his backyard pool during a torrential midnight storm. But the dog's mysterious arrival is only a portent of the strangeness to come, and Peter soon begins to think that the animal might be more than just a dog - he may in fact be his guardian angel.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lance Marcum
• Release date: Jul 29, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476028705

Lance Marcum

I am a semi-retired elementary school teacher and full-time writer. My first novel, The Cottonmouth Club (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) was selected as an IRA Children's Book Award Notable Book for 2005. It is available as an e-book at Barnes and Noble and Amazon.

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