He continues to lie and pretend he is Alf's grandson, but how long until everyone figures out the truth? And why is Nicky's mom trying to keep his dad away from him? Why does he only call her at work? Nicky becomes attached to Reggie and wants to solve the mystery of why Reggie flinches when someone raises a hand and why Reggie was at the pound instead of with Alf. Strazzulo, who offers Nicky bones and meat, when Reggie leads Nicky to his old neighborhood. Nicky lies and says that he and his mom are staying with Alf while he recovers from a broken ankle.
Nicky meets some guys at the park who know Reggie, and they guys ask how Alf is doing. On one of their walks, Reggie, a former-seeing eye dog, leads Nicky to all of his old favorite places to go. He's expecting her to take care of Reggie, but when she doesn't take him out or buy him food, Nicky starts to do that, just until she can do it herself. He's even more annoyed that she brought home Reggie from the pound. 9-13)]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.Plot Summary: Nicky isn't happy that his mom made him move to Charlestown. Nicky's first-person narration tends to make light of his own anger-management issues, but readers will applaud when he comes to recognize and control them. Corriveau weaves in interesting information about Boston's Freedom Trail and provides significant suspense when Nicky and Reggie actually run away. There's a lot going on in this story: making new friends, adjusting to school and family changes, dealing with flawed parents, even the training of guide dogs. Through his investigation of Reggie's background, he comes to recognize how he's shut his eyes to what had been going on around him and also what it would be like to be truly blind. Instead, he ends up chronicling his own growing acceptance of his new situation and love for the dog, Reggie. Reeling from his parents' separation, his move from a comfortable suburban home and perennially postponed visits with his father, almost-12-year-old Nicky Flynn begins a log to record his mother's "lying" when she brings home a former seeing-eye dog to share their tiny apartment in Charlestown, near Boston. Reviews provided by Syndetics Kirkus Book Review
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