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"A beautiful coming-of-age story full of pathos and humor and unforeseen turns,The people are quirky, eccentric, and adorable." — Kirkus ReviewsHarold "Small" Klein can’t appear to compare well. Enclosed by the "Bigs," his lively team of older siblings, and the busy, big-hearted Mom Klein, Harold frequently seems small and omitted before evening a stray puppy called LeRoy becomes his inseparable friend —. Join a cast of colourful characters in a rural lake city circa 1949, wherever kids wrestle on homemade rafts and perilous waters are ridden by fish, swipe pies,, and occasionally silently become personalities.