Margaret and Midnight: The Alaska Malamute

By Valerie Boever

Margaret and Midnight: The Alaska Malamute, fashioned after a real young lady and personal friend. Alaska is a wonderful place for a young girl and her dog to live. Margaret and Midnight grow to be the best of friends while learning lessons in life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Publication Consultants
• Release date: Jun 10, 2014
• ISBN: 9781594332845

Valerie Boever

Valerie Boever was born in Marinette, Wisconsin. She is oldest of four children. Val spent her early childhood and grade school years in Illinois. During much of that time her family lived on five acres with lavish landscaping. This country home provided endless activities for active imaginative children, and fostered a lifetime appreciation for the beauty of nature, trees and flowers. It was during this time her love for dogs developed, with the adoption of several, including a malamute.

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Margaret and Midnight

the Alaska Malamute

Written by Valerie J. Boever

Illustrations by Silver Hennessy

PO Box 221974 Anchorage, Alaska 99522-1974

[e-mail]—www.publicationconsultants.com

ISBN 978-1-59433-165-7

eBook ISBN 978-1-59433-284-5

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2010939161

Copyright 2010 Valerie J. Boever

—First Edition—

All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in any form, or by any mechanical or electronic means including photocopying or recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, in whole or in part in any form, and in any case not without the written permission of the author and publisher.

Manufactured in the United States

To the Real Margaret

And Her Mom

Happy Birthday

Judy

2007

Thank You

Thank you to Marthy Johnson, editor of Copyediting Services. Working with Marthy was a joyful experience.

Many thanks, of course, to Evan Swensen, of Publication Consultants, for considering my manuscript and guiding me through the process. I am grateful for his knowledge.

To my illustrator Silver, who captured my imagination and brought it to life.

Most of all, thank you to Margaret; her parents, Judy and Sam; and her brothers, Casey, Alex, Ross, and Scott, who inspired the story.

Champions of my dream are my sister, Regina, dear friends, and Kathleen Matthews.

Introduction

Margaret, also known as Margar by her friends, is my daughter. What was she like when she was just a little girl? She was our baby—baby Margaret and my Princess. I always called her Princess Margaret whenever I wanted one of her looks. She was famous for her Looks, but we called them Her face. Ask her to make a face Margaret and when she did, it would get us all to laughing. Some happy, some sad, but the best was her pouting face, because that is the only time we ever saw her pout. When she created the face it was so out of character that she would make the face just to get us to all laugh. Margar is not a pouter or a complainer; she was and is a doer. Her expressions still speak volumes without words, because her actions are her living truth.

Margaret was named after my best hunting dog, a Chesapeake Bay retriever named Maggie May. That is why in her early years after she