Clementine for Christmas

Description:

Josie is timid at school, comfortable at home, and confident when she and her dog Clementine are volunteering at the pediatric ward of the local hospital; Oscar is acting out and in trouble at school, miserable at home, and forced to volunteer as a punishment; Gabby is popular at school, but her perfect life is threatened because she is hiding a dangerous medical condition--but at the hospital the three children are brought together by Clementine at Christmas.

subjects: Families,  Epilepsy in children,  Juvenile fiction,  Epilepsy,  Family life,  Christmas stories,  Fiction,  Dogs,  Voluntarism,  Friendship,  Mutts (Dogs),  Child volunteers,  Hospitals,  Christmas,  Children's fiction,  Dogs, fiction,  Christmas, fiction,  Friendship, fiction,  Family, fiction,  Epilepsy, fiction,  Family life, fiction,  Hospitals, fiction