A heartfelt story about a little girl who adopts a tiny basset hound puppy and starts a whirlwind of adventures.
Nikki loves helping set up items at her uncle's weekly auction. Her favorite job is making a big batch of her sour lemon-aid which always makes people pucker! This week a man pulls up and has three adorable puppies that he would like to adopt to good homes.

Nikki immediately falls in love and wants to adopt one of the adorable puppies. However, she only has her "sticky" quarter that she earned at last week's auction. A woman adopts the first two for ten dollars each but leaves the smallest one behind. Uncle AJ nods towards Nikki and winks at the crowd. It appears that today, a sticky quarter is just enough to adopt Abbey Dog!

Born and raised on the Wirral, Barbara Morris studied French at the then new University of Sussex, and obtained her library qualifications at Queen's University Belfast. Her working life was spent as a librarian in Reading, first at the College of Education (later promoted to higher education) where she specialised in children's literature and taught (briefly) school librarianship. When the college merged with Reading University she became liaison librarian for the Faculty of letters and Social Sciences.
Since retiring she has worked as a volunteer for Two Rivers Press, a small local publisher, and at the Centre for Ephemera Studies. A lifelong choral singer she now leads a Singing for the Brain group, along with other members of the Reading Bach Choir.