Marty and his Ma, Dad, and two little sisters, three-year-old Becky and seven-year-old Dara Lynn, live in a four-room house in the hills above the town of Friendly.
Marty and his family live in rural West Virginia, where people value their privacy. Pagination in this guide refers to the Atheneum Books for Young Readers edition, ISBN 987-2-7.
Shiloh is followed by three other titles comprising the Shiloh quartet: Shiloh Season, Saving Shiloh, and A Shiloh Christmas. Shiloh won the Newbery Medal in 1992, the IRA-CBC (International Reading Association & the Children’s Book Council) Teacher Choice Award in 1994, and is the recipient of many state book awards. Marty’s character struggles with the same issues that troubled Naylor after she met the stray dog: moral ambiguity, animal cruelty, and personal responsibility. Acclaimed children’s author Phyllis Reynolds Naylor based Shiloh on a poignant, personal encounter with a mistreated dog.
Marty bonds with the dog, Shiloh, and learns more about himself and others as he struggles to reconcile the letter of the law with what he knows in his heart is right. Eleven-year-old Marty Preston fights to save an abused beagle from its cruel owner in Shiloh (1991).
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