The boy, Marty, wants a dog, but his family can’t afford one. The story really takes place sometime in the eighties, maybe nineties. It felt old-timey to my son, but part of this is from the lack of bells and whistles in your life if you are rural and poor, so there were lessons to be learned by reading this. It’s about a tween boy growing up poor in the mountains of West Virginia.
Shiloh is not quite a classic, though it appears on many reading lists and recommended readings. I wouldn’t call it light-hearted, but I would say you don’t have to be scared of the ending. After the last few classics with their super sad endings, my son and I were both hoping for Shiloh, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, to be more light-hearted. Another month, another read-aloud middle grades novel about nature, pets, and a boy coming of age.
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