Because of Winn-Dixie
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| Author | Kate DiCamillo |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Young adult novel |
| Publisher | Candlewick Press |
| Released | March 2000 |
| Media type | Hardcover and Paperback |
| Pages | 192 pp. |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-76360-776-2 |
Because of Winn-Dixie is a best selling children's novel by Kate DiCamillo, that has also been adapted as a 2005 family film, directed by Wayne Wang. It was published in 2000 and won the Newbery Honor distinction the following year.
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India Opal Buloni is a lonely 10-year-old who has just moved to the small town of Naomi, Florida with her father. They have to move because he is a preacher. They live in a trailer park. The move has resulted in her losing all her friends, and she now has to make new ones.
While in the Winn-Dixie supermarket, she encounters a scruffy dog that is wreaking havoc. She claims that it is hers, and names it Winn-Dixie. She discovers that Winn-Dixie becomes friends with everyone he encounters, and she makes some new friends in the process. Opal quickly establishes a rapport with her adult friends, and gradually learns that they have burdened pasts of their own. She gains wisdom and different outlooks on life through relationships with adults and peers, and grows emotionally in the process. She also rekindles the relationship with her father, and learns about her mother who abandoned them seven years ago, when Opal was 3.
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