Ilene Cooper

Dog

Lucy the beagle takes off after a cat and her owner has to overcome his bashfulness to ask people around town if they've seen her. I much preferred this jaunty little adventure over the first book in this series. I hate to admit it, but this dog series really needed a cat to help it come alive.

An energetic beagle puppy helps a shy boy open up and make some friends in his neighborhood.

It does what it sets out to do, but there just isn't much to it.

Lucy likes to run. She likes to bark. She likes to chew and howl. But when Bobby and his family take her to a lake, she finds out there's one thing she doesn't like--the water!