Meet Stanley, a black Labrador Retriever who flunks out of service-dog training, in this all-new companion novel to M. C. Ross''s beloved Nugly and Smiley!Stanley, an incredibly friendly black Labrador Retriever, wants nothing more than to be helpful. There''s just one problem -- he''s just flunked out of service dog school for being too friendly.
Charlie, a seventh-grade hockey player, wants nothing more than to be one of the best players in Boston. That''ll be tough, though, considering he''s just been demoted to the local B-tier team, the Charlestown Bunkeroos, for being too intense on the ice.
These two may seem mismatched. But when Charlie discovers that Stanley''s object-retrieval training makes him a secret training weapon, and Stanley realizes that Charlie clearly needs an encouraging friend, these two might just form a friendship that takes Boston by storm. And if they can take the Bunkeroos to the top of the league while doing it? Well, that''d be a reward as great as any Stanley cup.
