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Scout attends the Arcadia Boarding School for Young Ladies in Australia since her mother has passed away from cancer and her father is a long distance trucker. She's excited to be on a break from school, since she hasn't made many friends. She and her father will be traveling around, delivering dog food to rescue shelters across the country, and she has a plan to convince her father to let her stay at home, and maybe even adopt a dog. She does have a school Friendship Project to work on that her teacher, Ms. Lawson, has assigned. This includes e mailing several classmates, including the popular Ava and Sienna, but also Anika. Many of the shelters need help, so Scout works on a website for one, and helps a woman at another rehome most of the ten dogs in her care before she has hip replacement surgery. Scout has a talent for matchmaking dogs with potential owners, and uses her father's CB Radio to connect with many of the other long distance truckers, many of whom are glad to have dogs as travel companions. There is a Christmas get together planned with her Aunt Sal, but afterwards extensive bushfires are causing all kinds of problems. Scout does meet one dog, Molly, whom she wants to adopt for several reasons. The dog shares her late mother's name, and is a former puppy mill dog who can't walk. She raises money to help with costs, and her father lets her adopt that dog. Her e mails with Anika have been fun, and she feels a little better about going back to school. Her Aunt Sal helps out with fighting the bush fire and is injured, and shelters and truckers across the country are in danger. Once Scout and her father get home, they are in danger, but the wind shifts and their house is spared. This is an interesting fictional coverage of the real life 2019-2020 Australian bush fires.