Dog Tucker
Kathryn Drinkwater
Scholastic
Pub. 2009

December 03, 2021

Devlin has been living in foster homes his entire life. One day he decides he’s had enough. Award-winning novel, Dog Tucker, by Kathryn Drinkwater tells his story.

Dog Tucker is about Devlin, who feels nobody cares about him, so he runs away. He walks down a path for a while until he’s struck in the head by some teenagers and robbed. He is luckily found by the foster home manager and taken back to the home that he just left. He is then told that he will be staying at his uncle’s farm, an uncle that he never knew he had.  Read more