Dog Heaven (15 page)

Graham Salisbury
is the author of two Calvin Coconut books:
Trouble Magnet
and
The Zippy Fix
, as well as several novels for older readers, including the award-winning
Lord of the Deep, Blue Skin of the Sea, Under the Blood-Red Sun, Eyes of the Emperor, House of the Red Fish
, and
Night of the Howling Dogs
. Graham Salisbury grew up in Hawaii. Calvin Coconut and his friends attend the same school Graham did—Kailua Elementary School. Graham now lives in Portland, Oregon, with his family. Visit him on the Web at
www.grahamsalisbury.com
.

Jacqueline Rogers
has illustrated more than ninety books for young readers over the past twenty years. She studied illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design. You can visit her at
www.jacquelinerogers.com
.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Text copyright © 2010 by Graham Salisbury
Illustrations copyright © 2010 by Jacqueline Rogers

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Salisbury, Graham.
Calvin Coconut : dog heaven / Graham Salisbury; illustrated by Jacqueline Rogers. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: When his teacher asks him to write a persuasive argument about something he really wants, fourth-grader Calvin creates a unique way to express his desire for a dog.
eISBN: 978-0-375-89541-8 [1. Dogs—Fiction. 2. Composition (Language arts)—Fiction. 3. Schools—Fiction. 4. Family life—Hawaii—Fiction. 5. Kailua (Oahu, Hawaii)—Fiction.] I. Rogers, Jacqueline, ill. II. Title.

PZ7.S15225Cac 2010

[Fic]—dc22
2008049871

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