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Lucy and the Rocket Dog

byWill Buckingham

Knopf has acquired Will Buckingham's Lucy and the Rocket Dog, a middle-grade story told from the alternating perspectives of Lucy, an aspiring astrophysicist who has built a rocket ship in her backyard, and Laika, Lucy's beloved dog who wanders into the rocket ship and is subsequently shot into space.

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