Shiloh
by: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

from the insde cover thing
Eleven-year-old Marty Preston loves to spend time up in the hills behind his home near friendly, West Virginia. Sometimes he takes his .22 rifle to see what he can shoot, like some cans lined up on the rail fence. Other times he goes up early in the morning just to sit and watch the fox and deer.
But one summer Sunday, Marty comes across something different on the road just past the old Shiloh schoolhouse--ayoung beagle--and the trouble begins.
What do you do when a dog you suspect is being mistreated runs away and comes to you? When it is someone else's dog?When the man who owns him has a gun? This is Marty's problem, he finds it is one he has to face alone. When his solution gets to big fro him to handle, things become more frightning still. Marty puts his courage on it is not always easy to separate right from wrong. Sometimes, however, you do almost everything to save a dog.