Stine, Catherine

Asks readers to determine the plotline in a story with more than twenty possible endings in which a young girl learns lessons about love and loyalty when she is faced with decisions involving a puppy in danger.

Following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Dawn, a sixteen-year-old runaway from San Francisco, connects by phone and e-mail with Johar, a gentle, fifteen-year-old Afghani who assists Dawn's foster mother, a doctor, at a Red Cross refugee camp in Peshawar.

Asks readers to determine the plotline in a story with more than twenty possible endings in which a young girl learns lessons about love and loyalty when she is faced with decisions involving a puppy in danger.

Dawn, a California teen who has run away to New York, tries to contact her foster mother Louise, a Red Cross doctor in Pakistan, following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and instead reaches Louise's assistant, Johar, a refugee from Afghanistan, and the two form a bond that gives them both hope and courage to face the future.