Shailo

Eleven -year -old Marty Preston lives in the American rural outback with his parents and sisters. The House of Throne was lost in picturesque hills near the town of Frenli, which is West Virginia in the state. There are few people here, but it is easy to meet a groundhog, a snake, a fox or even a deer.
Once the boy finds a frightened hunting dog and finds out that she belongs to the harsh poacher Jad Travex and escaped from cruelty. Marty is looking for an opportunity to help the dog, but it is not easy for his poor family to keep the animal useless in the household, and there can be no question of buying a dog from the owner! What to do? In the vicinity of Frenlie, it is not customary to poke their nose into other people"s affairs, to argue with the elders, and even more so to encroach on someone else"s property, but to save Marty’s dog, all these rules will have to.
The story "Shailo" in 1992 was awarded Newbye medal for an outstanding contribution to American literature for children, included in the school program in the United States, and in 1996 it was filmed. The book is translated into leading languages ​​of the world. In Russian, it is published for the first time translated by Olga Miaeots.
For children of secondary school age