Albany Junior High School Library

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190 p.
Summary: Unemployed at 23, Satchel O'Rye feels obliged to stay with his parents in their dying town in rural Australia. Satchel's dad has closed his service station because he believes that "God will provide." His mother's pay as a nurse barely keeps the family afloat. While chopping wood, Satchel sees a strange striped animal that he discovers is a sidestep wolf or Tasmanian tiger thought to be extinct in Australia. Then Satchel's beloved dog is hit by a car. When he sees the tiger again, Satchel is caught in the moral dilemma of either revealing its existence to gain recognition and perhaps money for his dog's surgery or leaving the animal to run free.