Stay With Me ( 288 Pages)

Paul Griffin should be an author with whom you are familiar. He has written several award winning books, among them, Ten Mile River, and The Orange Houses. Stay With Me will be enjoyed by both boys and girls. It is a love story and a story about Cece is a straight A student, who works as a waitress in a successful restaurant. One day in walks Mack, an attractive, young man who is a high school dropout. Bam! the two are drawn to one another. Walking home one evening they are approached by a frightening scene of a dog being abused. Mack stops those responsible, and proceeds to bring the dog home to a rooftop hide-away where he is able to nurse the dog back to health. They name the dog Boo, and all is going well until....Mack goes crazy when he returns home late one night after seeing Cece to find Boo dead. He smells his water dish and the smell is anti freeze. He knows that his neighbor has poisoned Boo, and he goes after him in a moment of insane anger. Mack is accused of killing the man, and ends up in jail. There he will spend the rest of his life. However, an officer notices that Mack is able to calm the police dogs down so that they obey him. He gets a prison job training the dogs so that they obey. The plot continues and Mack becomes more and more capable of training dogs. Boys will really love this book, and girls will enjoy it too. It is a heart breaker, but also uplifting, and filled with hope.