Story+Elements

__**Book title**__: How To Steal A Dog __**Written by:**__ Barbara O'Connor

__**Setting:**__ **North Carolina**

__**Conflict: Georgina's family is very poor so she lived in a car.**__

__**Genre:**__ **A Realistic Fiction**

__**Characters and Characteristics:**__

**Georgina: (main character) She's a girl who lived with her mother and Toby, she lives in a car. She is not smart but she have a lot of ideas. She have a lot of confidence and find a way to fix the situation she is in. In the book, Georgina is the boss of Toby so she order him to follow her.**

**Toby: Georgina's Little Brother, he couldn't really keep secrets. He's is a troublesome kid sometime (according to the book) but sometimes he have a lot of ideas that Georgina can't think of.**

**Mama: Georgina's Mother (she divorced, her dad left them). Really cares about their children but sometimes Georgina is just too much to handle. She have a lot of soft spot but she never gave up. Even though she lost her job, she quickly find a new job.**

**Luanne: Georgina's Best Friend, she's really nosy though. She use to be Georgina best friends until she finds out that Georgina live in a car. Now she hangs out with other people and laugh at Georgina.**


 * Mookie: A bum who convince Georgina too realize what she had done. He's a very nice guy and taught Georgina a lot of things. He's a person that works but sometime he won't get any money not because of the boss, but he don't want the money because he said "sometimes the job needs to be done more than getting money."**


 * Willy: A dog that Georgina stole and belong to Ms. Whitmore**


 * Mrs.Whitmore: She's not pure and not too rich, she lives in a street that's named after her and have a huge house but it turned out that she's not rich after all.**

__**Point of View:**__

__**Theme:**__
 * Friendship
 * Peer pressure