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Question: What's the name of the book with the blind dog!?
--it is a children's novel (grades4-6)
--girl owning a blind dog (think it's a labrador retrieverWww@QuestionHome@Com


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
"The Trouble With Tuck" and "Tuck Triumphant" by Theodore Taylor
http://www!.amazon!.com/Tuck-Triumphant-Th!.!.!.
"Helen Ogden, 14, and Tuck, her blind Labrador, both introduced in The Trouble with Tuck (Doubleday, 1981), continue their courageous, loving story!. Having trained Tuck to use Lady Daisy as his seeing-eye dog, Helen now faces a new challenge when her parents decide to adopt a Korean orphan!. When the family meets six-year-old Chok-Do at the airport, they discover that the boy is deaf and mute!. While her parents agonize over a decision to send Chok-Do back, Helen takes him on as her project!. She trained Tuck; she can train Chok-Do and the family!. After difficult adjustments, life-threatening episodes, and the death of Lady Daisy, the family plans a wilderness trip before deciding Chok-Do's fate!. During a thunderstorm, Tuck saves both Chok-Do and Helen, and the parents realize they love the boy!. Helen and Tuck triumphantly prevail, intrepid and determined; Tuck will get a new seeing-eye dog and everyone will learn sign language!. All the details of a deaf-mute are accurate, as are the harrowing, potentially deadly incidents that wouldn't occur if Chok-Do could hear!."Www@QuestionHome@Com