Snook Alone

by Marilyn Nelson  Illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering

This is a beautiful book about a man and his dog and how they are such good friends even though the man is a monk (a religious man, sort of like a nun) so he doesn't really speak. The man gets separated from his dog and the dog has to learn to live alone on the beach.  Some of the words in this book are kind of hard, so make sure you have a dictionary or a much older reader nearby to help if you need to know the meanings of some of the words in this story.