The Pup Who Cried Wolf

by Chris Kurtz

  “Glory,” I say. I wait. I’m not sure anyone is listening. Then I decide to say it anyway. “You were wrong about one thing. I did find my pack in Yellowstone Park. I just didn’t look for it in the right place. My pack lives in a place with air-conditioning, pizza, bright streetlights, and flavors from all over the world.”

  No one answers, but I don’t care.

  I know that starting tonight, I’m working on a whole new favorite dream. Somewhere under the dark trees, a pack is gathering together. They might be sniffing each other and getting ready for their family run. But I’m dreaming of my big, bold city home together with my own brave pack—Glory, Heckles, Mona, and me.

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  ANIMAL TALES

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  Linda Phillips Teitel

  The Pup Who Cried Wolf

  Chris Kurtz

  Text copyright © 2010 by Chris Kurtz

  Illustrations copyright © 2010 by Guy Francis

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  First published in the United States of America in May 2010

  by Bloomsbury Books for Young Readers

  Electronic edition published in October 2011

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Kurtz, Chris

  The pup who cried wolf / by Chris Kurtz; illustrations by Guy Francis. — 1st U.S. ed.

  p. cm.

  Summary: Lobo, a Chihuahua from New York City who feels he is truly a wolf in an undersized body, goes to Yellowstone National Park with his mistress and dreams of running wild with his wolf brothers.

  ISBN 9781599908861 (ebook)

  [1. Chihuahua (Dog breed)—Fiction. 2. Dogs—Fiction. 3. Yellowstone National Park—Fiction. 4. Humorous stories.] I. Francis, Guy, ill. II. Title.

  PZ7.K9626Pu 2010 [Fic]—dc22 2009038270