Leon Author:Helen Griffiths The wounded mongrel puppy is at first only a challenge to Hilario---a life to save. But each finds a need for the other of which they were unaware, and they grow to be friends and constant companions. The puppy is brave and so the Spanish boy names him Leon---the lion. When the boy goes off to medical school the dog is sold and mistreated. With ... more »his various owners Leon experiences many aspects of man's character an suffers as well as enjoys, but from the very first moments, his life had always been guided and ruled by man. For good or bad he had belonged to human society and lived as ordained by it. But mistreatment makes him run off, an outcast, no longer a friend of man. Leon becomes the killer and the hunted. Author Helen Griffiths sensitively portrays the complex relationship between boy and dog and between dog and mankind, richly interwoven with the lives of those in the small villages on the Castilian plain.« less