{"id":38244,"date":"2020-10-31T22:58:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T02:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=38244"},"modified":"2020-10-31T23:00:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T03:00:30","slug":"review-of-a-home-for-goddesses-and-dogs-by-leslie-connor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=38244","title":{"rendered":"Review of A Home for Goddesses and Dogs, by Leslie Connor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A Home for Goddesses and Dogs<\/em><\/p>\n

by Leslie Connor<\/p>\n

Katherine Tegen Books, 2020. 385 pages.
\nReview written August 17, 2020, from a library book
\nStarred Review<\/p>\n

A Home for Goddesses and Dogs<\/em> is another heart-warming story by the author of The Truth According to Mason Buttle<\/a><\/em>, a book I read during my Newbery year and loved in so many ways.<\/p>\n

As the book begins, Lydia Bratches-Kemp, an eighth grader who\u2019s been home-schooled, is setting out for a new home after her mother\u2019s death. She gets to stay with her Aunt Brat and her wife Eileen on a farm in Connecticut owned by Elloroy, who had gotten too old to keep up with things. To add to her new family, shortly after Lydia arrives, Brat and Eileen decide to adopt a dog. Lydia\u2019s not a dog person, so it takes her some time to get accustomed to the unruly and exuberant yellow dog they choose.<\/p>\n

The book is about making friends, making a home, and making a new family. Lydia also has things to deal with in her memories of her mom, and about her dad who left them when her mom got sick. Lydia\u2019s mom was an artist, and used to make goddesses when something came up they had to deal with, such as the Goddess of the Third Heart, made when her mom got passed up for the third time on the heart transplant list.<\/p>\n

Lydia\u2019s new school is small. She\u2019s skeptical, but some girls offer to show her around the neighborhood, and she makes some connections that surprise her.<\/p>\n

This is a feel-good story about finding home.<\/p>\n

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