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Matty Doolin
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Fifteen-year-old Matty Doolin is expected to leave school and follow his father into Tyneside shipbuilding. Matty instead wants to care for animals, an ambition his parents regard as impractical because he has neither qualifications nor money and cannot even persuade them to keep Nelson, the stray dog he befriends.
A camping trip with Joe and Willie takes Matty to a farm high on the fells, where danger and responsibility test whether his interest is more than a childhood dream. The experience gives him a possible route towards work that fits his abilities and the courage to choose a future different from the one planned for him.
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