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Weekends with Daisy
Author:
Luttrell, Sharron Kahn
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362.4048
Age: Adult
Language: English
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LC: HV1569
Print Run: 75000
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ISBN-13: 9781451686234
LCCN: BD13105026
Imprint: Gallery Books
Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
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Pub Date: 09/10/2013
Availability: Out of Stock Indefinitely
List: $26.00
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Hardcover
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Physical Description:
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313 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
H 8.44",
W 5.5",
D 1.2",
0.94 lbs.
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Brodart's Insight Catalog: Adult
Brodart's TOP Adult Titles
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TIPS Subjects:
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Crime/Law Enforcement
Pets/Domestic Animals
Young Adult
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs
PETS / Dogs / General
SELF-HELP / Motivational & Inspirational
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LC Subjects:
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Luttrell, Sharron Kahn
Service dogs
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Service dogs
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| Brodart's TOP Adult Titles | 05/01/2013 |
| The puppy is due back by Sunday night. Heartbreak led journalist Sharron Luttrell to Daisy, a dog she helps train during the weekends as part of the Prison PUP program. Golden Labrador Daisy spends the rest of the week convicted felon Keith. As Sharron and Keith train Daisy to be an ideal service dog, Sharron finds it hard to give Daisy up. Daisy has one last lesson to teach when Sharron learns the reason for Keith's imprisonment. 320pp., 75K |
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| Booklist | 09/01/2013 |
| Journalist Luttrell was suffering from "canine deficit disorder" after the death of her dog, and then she heard about the weekend puppy-raiser program. NEADS, an organization that raises service dogs for people with disabilities, needed volunteers to train puppies on weekends. During the week they were cared for and trained by prison inmates, but they needed socialization and desensitization in the "real world" to complete their training. Enter Daisy, a four-month-old yellow Labrador retriever, and Keith, her inmate trainer. Service dogs are not pets, and every new situation must be orchestrated to be a positive experience for the dog, so working with Daisy involved quite a bit of training not only for Daisy but also for the author and her family. Luttrell found herself asking for Keith's advice. As the two bonded over Daisy and her training, Luttrell realized that they both needed to reassure the other that Daisy would make it through the program. In the process of her training, Daisy introduced both trainers to a friendlier world and helped them locate the kinder, more patient person within themselves. Bent, Nancy. 310p. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, c2013. |
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| Kirkus Reviews | 07/01/2013 |
| Former journalist Luttrell had yet to find a replacement for a much-loved dog when a chance encounter with a service dog-in-training in a local supermarket changed her life. The author describes how she mourned the loss of her dog and anxiously anticipated empty-nest syndrome as her two children approached college age. The young man leading the dog was a weekend volunteer with the National Education for Assistance Dog Services, an organization that places puppies in prisons. Specially selected inmates raise the dogs and train them for a wide range of tasks: turning on lights, pushing elevator buttons, alerting the hearing impaired to alarms, acting as a companion to autistic children and more. During the week, the dogs share a cell with their handlers, but on weekends, they are housed with volunteers who introduce them to more challenging, chaotic environments such as shopping malls and city streets. Luttrell relates her decision to embark on the program with support from her husband and children. Daisy was introduced into the family, and, over the next 16 months, morphed from an adorable Lab puppy who feared loud noises to a trained companion for an autistic young man. At first half hoping that the lovable puppy would fail to make the grade and remain with her, Luttrell gradually became committed to her success. The author explains that learning to anticipate and respond to Daisy's signals helped her become "a better, more patient mother," and her desire to see Daisy succeed helped her deal with her separation anxiety. Each weekend, the author would pick up and then return Daisy to the prison, and she and her inmate training partner would share experiences. Her growing realization of the importance of the program in the prisoner's life provides another thread to the narrative. A deceptively simple but powerful account of family bonds, friendship and the special relationship we share with dogs. 320pg. KIRKUS MEDIA LLC, c2013. |
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| Library Journal Prepub Alert | 03/25/2013 |
| In the Prison PUP program, sponsored by NEADS, inmates qualify to train puppies to become service dogs. Journalist Luttrell became part of the program when she volunteered to be a weekend puppy raiser, picking up a puppy each weekend for a year and then returning it on Monday to the prisoner training the dog. Leery of involvement because she was still mourning the death of the family dog, Luttrell instead found herself deeply attached to both Daisy, the yellow lab pup she was tending, and Daisy's trainer, Keith, a quiet man serving a lengthy prison term. She was shocked when she accidentally discovered Keith's crime but came to realize that Daisy held the key: she was teaching Luttrell to focus on the present just as she was teaching Keith how to empathize and to appreciate the consequences of his actions. It's a great story, and CBS Films has a project in the works, so here's betting this will get attention. With a 75,000-copy first printing. 320p. LJ Prepub Alert Online Review. LIBRARY JOURNAL, c2013. |
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| Publishers Weekly | 06/17/2013 |
| Having lost her longtime pet dog, Massachusetts journalist Luttrell volunteers to help train service dogs on the weekends; the rest of the week, the animals are taught by inmates as part of the Prison PUP program. She hits the jackpot with the second dog assigned to her--Daisy, an affable yellow Labrador puppy. Even as Luttrell struggles to follow the program's guidelines and not simply play with Daisy, the connection she and her family form with the dog creates a complicated tension. On the one hand, keeping Daisy would be a dream come true, but that could only happen if Daisy flunked out of the National Education for Assistance Dog Services program. That failure would not only tear at Luttrell, but would be devastating to Keith, the inmate responsible for Daisy on weekdays. This moving warts-and-all narrative explores themes of redemption, as Luttrell struggles to reconcile the Keith she knows through the dog-training program and the man responsible for the crime that landed him behind bars for decades. The author's empathy is impressive given her own troubled past; she relates those struggles, as well as her rocky relationship with her teenage daughter, with candor that will win over readers generally left cold by animal books. (Sept.). 320p. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, c2013. |
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