A Forever Home for Tilly

By Linda Chapman and Sophy Williams

Grace and Jack have a plan - to find purrfect homes for purrfect pets!
Nine-year-old twins Grace and Jack run the Forever Homes rehoming service. Whether it's a cheeky puppy or a shy kitten, they're determined to pair every animal with their perfect person - and have lots of adventures along the way!
Tilly is a gorgeous cockapoo puppy who needs lots of love. She is also full of mischief! Can the twins find someone who'll love her - AND the trouble she causes?
Fans of Zoe's Rescue Zoo and Holly Webb will love Forever Homes! Beautifully illustrated throughout by Sophy Williams, Forever Homes is the ideal series for animal-mad readers aged 5+.
Look out for the other Forever Homes stories!
A Forever Home for Pip
A Forever Home for Luna
A Forever Home for Fluffy
A Forever Home for Bella
A Forever Home for Tiger

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nosy Crow Ltd
• Release date: Mar 5, 2020
• ISBN: 9781788007917

Linda Chapman

Linda Chapman brings years of experience to the Hello Kitty Fiction series, as she has worked in and written children’s books for many years. Bestselling series she has worked on include My Secret Unicorn, Skating School and Rainbow Magic.

Book preview

v

To the dogs who’ve provided

the inspiration for these books,

particularly Candy, the cockapoo,

who is as lively and loving as

Tilly, and Callie, the GSD,

who is smaller than Tiny

but twice as cheeky.

vi

1

Mum’s back with the dogs! Grace jumped down from the kitchen window seat, from where she’d been keeping a lookout, and ran to the door.

Wait for me! said Jack, going after her. Grace and Jack Taylor loved animals 2so much that they’d set up the Forever Homes rehoming service from the shed in their large garden. Whenever unwanted dogs or cats needed a new home, the nine-year-old twins took them in. They then cared for them until they could find them a forever home with a perfect new owner.

At the moment, Grace and Jack didn’t have any animals to rehome so they were helping their mum. She ran Top Dog, a doggy day care and boarding business, from the family’s Victorian house. The twins’ home was always busy – as well as their mum’s clients coming and going, they had an older sister, Amelia, who was thirteen, and an older brother, Ollie, who was seventeen. There was also Tiny, the family’s German Shepherd cross, who was usually found sleeping flat out on the kitchen floor.3

Grace waved to her mum as she parked her dogmobile on the drive. The van was painted to look like a real dog. It had black-and-white patches, a stick-on nose and ears, and a long tail that curled across 4the back door. Grace and Jack loved it!

Hello, twins, said Mum, who’d been out collecting the dogs that were spending the day with her.

The dogmobile sounds like it’s barking, giggled Grace as the dogs woofed when her mum opened the back door. There were three today and they wagged their tails excitedly as Grace and Jack got them out of the crates they travelled in.

5Here you go, said Mum, handing the leads to Grace and Jack. You can take them for a quick walk while I check on the boarders.

Jack’s dark hair flopped in his eyes as he bent to stroke two black-and-white spaniels called Meg