Dog eat dog

By Jake Marcionette

Subjects: Humorous stories, Pet grooming salons, Friendship, fiction, Popularity, fiction, Brothers and sisters, fiction, Middle schools, Schools, fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Friendship, Fiction, Children's fiction, Popularity, Teachers, fiction, Brothers and sisters, Substitute teachers, Schools, Friendship, JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Siblings, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Bullying

Description: Sixth-grader Jake Ali Mathews is slowly settling in at his new school and has a new best friend, Michael, but a substitute teacher arrives who instructs by having her students help with a fledgling pet-grooming company, which strains his friendship and tests his growing popularity.