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    Murphy
    Murphy
    Murphy
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    Murphy

    By Susan Hughes

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    Meet Murphy, a clever sheltie puppy!

    Kat and her BFF Maya love playing with the puppies at her aunt Jenn's grooming business, Tails Up! The girls know that every dog has its own special personality…and problems. Luckily, Kat and Maya are always there to help a puppy in need!

    When a shy shetland puppy named Murphy is boarded at Tails Up!, Kat and Maya can't wait to play with him! But after Kat invites new-girl Grace to join them, Kat notices Maya is less than pleased. Can sweet little Murphy help bring the three girls together?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSourcebooks
    Release dateNov 1, 2016
    ISBN9781492634010
    Murphy
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    Susan Hughes

    Susan Hughes is a freelance editor with a wide range of experience.While her first love is working with indie authors, she has edited both fiction and nonfiction, poetry, corporate and education-related publications, and blog posts. Susan is a former editor for Addison Magazine and has performed pre-submission editing for a number of clients whose op-ed pieces appeared in The Huffington Post and Fox News Latino. Susan earned a BA in English Literature from the University of Houston at Clear Lake and spent 29 years as an educator.

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      Murphy - Susan Hughes

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      Copyright © 2014 by Susan Hughes

      Cover and internal design © 2016 by Sourcebooks, Inc.

      Series design and illustrations by Jeanine Murch

      Cover image © lucianna gerghi/iStockphoto

      Internal illustrations by Bill King

      Sourcebooks and the colophon are registered trademarks of Sourcebooks, Inc.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems—except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews—without permission in writing from its publisher, Sourcebooks, Inc.

      The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious and are used fictitiously. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental and not intended by the author.

      Published by Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, an imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc.

      P.O. Box 4410, Naperville, Illinois 60567–4410

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      Originally published as Murphy Helps Out in 2014 in Canada by Scholastic Canada Ltd.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Hughes, Susan, 1960- author. | Murch, Jeanine Henderson, illustrator.

      Title: Murphy / Susan Hughes ; illustrations by Jeanine Henderson Murch.

      Other titles: Murphy helps out

      Description: Naperville, lllinois : Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, [2016] | Series: Puppy pals ; 3 | Originally published as Murphy Helps Out in 2014 in Canada by Scholastic Canada Ltd. | Summary: Kat’s new friend Grace and her best friend Maya learn to be friends, while the three girls help a lost cocker spaniel find her way back home.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2015044673 | (13 : alk. paper)

      Subjects: | CYAC: Dogs--Fiction. | Animals--Infancy--Fiction. | Friendship--Fiction.

      Classification: LCC PZ7.H87396 Mu 2016 | DDC [E] 2 23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2015044673

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      CONTENTS

      Front Cover

      Title Page

      Copyright

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      About the Author

      A Sneak Peek at Bijou

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      Puppies were scampering across the grass. There must have been over twenty of them!

      Some puppies were brown, some were black, and some were brown with white spots. Some puppies had perky ears, and some had floppy ears. Some had big, wide paws; some had little, dainty paws. All the puppies had sparkling eyes and wagging tails.

      Kat was in her classroom, sitting at her desk.

      Her eyes were closed. She was having her favorite puppy daydream.

      Her mother and father smile at her.

      Of course you can have a puppy, Kat, her mother says.

      Her father sweeps out his arm. Have any one you want!

      Kat smiles too. She looks at all the puppies, and she tries to choose. The little red Irish setter puppy gazing up at her with the dark-brown eyes? The black-and-white dalmatian puppy tumbling across the grass? The adorable wheaten terrier pup with the brown face and the black muzzle?

      Suddenly the bell rang. School was over for the day, and the dream ended. But that was okay. Kat had puppy plans this afternoon.

      Let’s go! Kat said to Grace, who was at the desk next to hers. The girls jumped out of their seats, grabbed their

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