Jimmy: Toughest. Dog. Ever.

By Sally Hill Mills and Susan Shorter

Its hard being a runt. Harder still if youre missing one of your legs. Makes you pretty sure no family would adopt you. None of the other dogs in the shelter even wants to play with you. Makes you just want to put your head down, close your eyes, and give up. But Jimmy will find out that he can belong to a family and a pack of dogs and that even though life is really hard sometimes, life is good. Dont ever give up.


A rich reading experience for elementary school children. A great classroom book full of lessons about language and life.
Kirkus Reviews

Celebrates difference and inclusion. It is a perfect way to teach advocacy and empathy to kids and adults alike.
Cindy Lafon, Family Liaison, Parents Reaching Out, Albuquerque

Jimmy teaches children and grown-ups that everyone deserves a safe and loving home, and that if you have that as the backdrop for your life you can overcome enormous challenges.
Nancy Ferguson, childrens therapist, Dallas

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Mar 28, 2015
• ISBN: 9781496974211

Sally Hill Mills

Sally Hill Mills gets to snuggle on the couch every night with a real-life, three-legged, one-eyed dog named Djembe. A former teacher, she hopes this book encourages kids to write about their own experiences, with or without pets.

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© 2015 By Sally Davis. All rights reserved.

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Published by AuthorHouse    07/13/2015

ISBN: 978-1-4969-7422-8 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4969-7421-1 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2015903650

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Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Afterword

About the Author

To Parents and Teachers:

For Robin and Amy, who know a tough dog when they see one; for Nick and Sharee, who delight in special dogs of all shapes and sizes; and most of all, for Arrow, who taught us all about belonging. If Jimmy could really talk, he would call Arrow the best four-legged dog ever.

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Chapter 1

I want to play, Jimmy sighed, as he watched two dogs romp on the floor outside his cage. He dropped his head on his empty food bowl. He closed his eyes and dreamed he was running at the head of a pack in a big, grassy field.

His keeper always told him, "I can’t let you out of your cage to play because you could get hurt.