Because of Winn-Dixie -Spasibo Yinn Diksi - in Russian language

... Through the love she gains from her new pet, a 10-year old girl gains the courage to ask her father about the mother who abandoned them. "In this exquisitely crafted first novel [a Newbery Honor book], each chapter possesses an arc of its own and reads almost like a short story in its completeness," said Publishers Weekly in our Best Books of 2000 citation. Now in Russian translation. Ages 8 and up.