Puppy Love

About the Book

In Puppy Love, a female dog abandons three scrawny, little puppies, and two little boys find them. One of the boys feels sorry for them, so he takes them to his house. There are three pets living with the family already, so the father plans to put the puppies up for adoption as soon as they regain their healthy appearance. His plans go awry as his three little daughters refuse to give them up. Soon, the entire family falls under the spell of the puppies, and the father has a tougher time deciding whether to keep them or to put them up for adoption as planned. Will the puppies stay with the family? Or will they be adopted? Read the story and find out.

About the Author

Julian Lorenzana was born in Mexico, came to the U. S. in l945 illegally, became legal in 1955, was drafted after one year of college, served almost two years with the Army's Special Troops in Germany, was released from the army and rerturned to Imperial Valley College, went on to San Diego State University, graduating with a Bachelor's Degree in Liberal Studies and a Master's Degree in Bilingual Education, taught elementary school grades 5th through 8th for 34 years and subbed in Kinder through 4th grades for six years. He also took a course in Children's Literature and, after writing three short stories, quit when assigned a regular, full-length novel that required research, which I felt I did not have time to do because of my full-time teaching duties plus my night-time teaching of English to adults.