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53 pages 1 hour read

Sarah Lean

A Dog Called Homeless

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

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Chapters 19-27Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Chapter 19 Summary

As the family continues to unpack, they start to realize they don’t have enough room for all their belongings. To save space, Dad puts one of the armchairs out on the street for someone to take for free. Then, he “pack[s] up Mom’s old cooking equipment […] He packed up the books and photo albums and his guitar, mumbling that it was broken; all the things that hadn’t been touched for over a year” (86). He tells Luke to do something with the boxes he packed up and then leaves.

Luke is too busy playing on his computer to notice Cally dragging the armchair back off the street and into the shed outside their apartment. She goes back inside and grabs the boxes Dad packed up and puts them in the shed too, worried that he’ll give away all the items that are tied to Mom’s memory. Cally turns the shed into a safe space where those items can be stored. She looks around and decides on the final homey touch that her new space needs, a hand-drawn picture of Mom and Homeless to hang on the wall.

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