Grade ToSixth Grade
SynopsisIn a first novel recalling the fiction of Harper Lee and Carson McCullers, the narrator--ten-year-old Opal--describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen because of her big, ugly dog, Winn-Dixie. A Newbery Honor Book now in paperback., Winn-Dixie, a big, ugly, happy dog, helps 10-year-old Opal make new friends, begin to find her place in the world, and let go of some of the sadness left by her mother's abandonment seven years earlier.