The passion of this thirteen-year old girl to overcome any obstacle to help her dog who is going blind, builds confidence that her appearance and lack of abilities did not.

Her struggles in problem-solving and training her dog, to protect him from himself, show the inner turmoil and external support of her family.

A heart-warming story that will encourage and inspire. ( )

*spoilers*

If this book had been about 70 pages shorter, it would've rated a 5 star. Just condense the first 70 pages or so. Because this book started out very slow, and even after the main thing was introduced, ie Tuck started loosing his sight, it just seemed to go slowly and nothing big was really happening.
The last few chapters were great though, I was VERY surprised by Helen's creative idea on how to train Tuck to be guided, and I was really happy and excited at the end. Overall a good book, but very slow to actually get good. ( )

Lexile: 880
Reading Recovery: 28
DRA: 44
Fountas Pinnel Guided Reading: V