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The Spotted Dog Last Seen is a juvenile fiction novel recommended for ages 10 to 12.

Awards and Achievements

 * Selected for the A New York Public Library Book for Reading and Sharing 2013
 * Short-listed for the Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award 2015
 * Short-listed for the Rocky Mountain Book Award
 * Short-listed for the Cochecho Readers' Award 2015
 * Nominated for the 2014 Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award

Plot
After being absent with a pink eye when groups were assigned, Derek Knowles-Collier was forced to perform community service at the local cemetery. His two partners were Merrilee and Pascal. On their first day of duty, the group had to learn how to read weathered gravestones in the library. There, Merrilee borrowed an anonymously donated novel recommended by Loyota Louden, the volunteer librarian. The book included a secret code, which led to another novel, and then another. But the final result—along with the death of Mr. Creelman, a member of the cemetery brigade, which cares for the cemete