Julia Gillian (and the art of knowing) - McGhee, Alison 1960- (Scholastic Press, 2008)
Nine-year-old Julia Gillian learns a lot about facing fear as she and her St. Bernard, Bigfoot, take long walks through their Minneapolis neighborhood one hot summer, and she seeks the courage to finish a book that could have an unhappy ending.
Keywords: Fear -- Fiction; Saint Bernard dog -- Fiction; Dogs -- Fiction; Family life -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis -- Fiction; Neighborhoods -- Fiction; Nachbarschaft; Familienleben; Überwindung; Furcht; Freundschaft; Mädchen -- 9 Jahre; Minneapolis (Minn.) -- Fiction; Minneapolis, Minn.; Kinderbuch