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Buote Dicamillo: Summary
kate dicamillo is the author of this novel i think she wrote this novel to prove that a dog can becom ea humans best friend.This novel showed me that not only a human can be your best friend but also an animal. The story is told by a ten year old named India Opal Buloni. The setting of the novel takes place in Naomi Florida. India Opal moved there with her father she did not know anyone in town. One day her father sent her to the supermarket where she finds a dog. Opal decides to adopt him and names him after the supermarket "Winn-Dixie". Right away Opal knew she could tell him anything like the fact that shes been thinking about her mother who left Opal when she was three. her father the preacher wont talk to her about her at all. She feels
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