Townsend’s debut release for 2024!
Clara’s Wish
New beginnings sound exciting unless you’re an orphan. Fourteen-year-old Clara Forbes is in a new home, new school and new state. And as the ‘new girl’ in a small town, she is definitely the outsider. She has no friends, and feels like she’s invisible to the world outside her home where she lives with her grandparents.
Growing up Clara was never allowed to have any animals but when she learns that her dad’s best friend was a dog, she goes in search of her own for a companion. Taking Baxter in isn’t all smooth sailing as she has no experience and his own challenging past brings numerous struggles. Searching for help she finds a trainer only to be given bad advice. As a result she nearly loses her new best friend.
She gave him a second chance at life when she rescued him, and nearly botched it, but he didn’t give up on her. Together they work hard to reach a place of trust and cooperation only to find themselves in a life and death situation. Will their bond and training be enough?
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Grief doesn’t play fair. When you least expect it, it grabs you and pulls you under.
That’s where fourteen-year-old Clara Forbes finds herself when the anniversary of her parents’ deaths brings her pain back to the surface. The tidal wave of loss weighs heavy, and she struggles to escape its icy grip.
While she tries to claw her way out, she encounters an angry neighbor who is mean to his dog. She desperately wants to help the dog, but how can she when the old man pushes her away? It’s one frustrating encounter after another.
As Clara tries to sort through her own troubles, with the help of family and friends, can she connect with the old man to help the dog and find her joy again?
Clara’s Joy
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When you spend years helping dog owners train using reinforcement-based training, and then you retire, what do you do?
You take your love of compassionate training and you put it in a different form.
A book.
The purpose in using the story format is to plant the seeds of possibilities in the younger, animal-loving groups, to create a kinder world for dogs and owners, both.
Who is Nell Dorée Townsend?
She has always been an animal lover but before the thought of writing ever existed…
She started out as an Air Force officer and then took on the job of mom and teacher schooling her two boys for the duration (best decision ever). From there she continued with her teaching but with dogs and their people.
Now, over twenty years later, she decided to teach via a story.
Nell has competed in agility, conformation, obedience, canicross and has trained scent work, mantrailing and enjoys teaching her dogs tricks. Teaching classes and providing private behavioral help was truly a labor of love.
She currently lives in NW Florida with her husband, Scott, and their dog, Eva.