The Girl Who Followed the Stray Dog
Eight-year-old Elsie Warren never intended to become part of a story the people of Cedar Hollow would talk about for years.
She only meant to find the stray dog.

The little brown mutt had been wandering near her mother’s rented trailer for weeks, thin as a rail, one ear folded over, tail always wagging as though he still believed the world owed him something good. Whenever her mother worked late at the diner, Elsie left biscuit crumbs near the