Hurry Home, Candy
by Meindert De Jong
Middle grade · ages 8–12 · grades 3–7 · 720L · 244 pages · 1971
Why we'd hand it over
A quiet, genuinely moving dog-finds-her-way story that treats loss and belonging seriously without melodrama—De Jong's prose is spare and observant, and it sticks with kids who've felt displaced or homeless themselves.