Someone to Run With A Novel

<p><b>David Grossman's <i>Someone to Run With</i> tells the story of a lost dog, and the discovery of first love on the streets of Jerusalem, portrayed here with a gritty realism that is as fresh as it is compelling.</b><br><br>When awkward and painfully shy sixteen-year-old Assaf is asked to find the owner of a stray yellow lab, he begins a quest that will bring him into contact with street kids and criminals, and a talented young singer, Tamar, engaged on her own mission: to rescue a teenage drug addict.<br><br>A runaway bestseller in Israel, in the words of the <i>Christian Science Monitor</i>: "It's time for Americans to fall in love with (Grossman's) <i>Someone to Run With</i>."</p>