Danger Dog Author:Lynn Hall Having failed once in the past to show responsibility as a pet owner, thirteen-year-old David is determined to save a dangerous Doberman pinscher by deprogramming him from his attack training. Max, the Doberman pinscher David Purdy encounters in the Johnson County courthouse, is not a pet. He has been trained as an attack dog and now he is, in e... more »ffect, on trial for his life, because his owner, defended by David's lawyer father, is being sued for injuries to a deliveryman attacked by Max. The judge orders the payment of damages but does not require that Max be destroyed; even so, the disgruntled owner is determined to do away with Max--until David persuades his father to let him try to "deprogram" Max. Lynn Hall's novel depicts movingly and realistically a boy's love for a dog, love that cannot always overcome all odds.« less