Gopher, Tanker, and the Admiral
by Shirley Climo
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When other money-making efforts fail, a boy and his dog accept a summer job as companions to an old man, only to become involved in solving some neighborhood burglaries.Tags
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Shirley Climo was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1928. She attended DePauw University until her mother died unexpectedly in 1949. She dropped out of college and took up her mother's work writing scripts for the weekly WGAR-Radio children's program Fairytale Theatre. During her lifetime, she wrote 24 books including The Korean Cinderella; Magic and show more Mischief: Tales from Cornwall; A Treasury of Princesses: Princess Tales from Around the World; A Treasury of Mermaids: Mermaid Tales from Around the World; and Someone Saw a Spider: Spider Facts and Folktales. She died on August 25, 2012 at the age of 83. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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