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A few years back read a book about an unconventional family who youngest son wants just one thing; a dog. The boys older brother, the only "normal" one in the story, dreams of becoming an astronaut. The boys are very close and the older brother acts as a protector of his sibling, but one day there is a tragic accident while the two are playing in the yard near the bomb shelter their father is building, and the older brother dies. The family is devastated, and the younger boy becomes despondent, until one day he happens upon a stray puppy. The boy begins seeing strange likenesses between his deceased brother and the puppy, becoming convinced that it is the boys reincarnation. The rest of the book follows the boys as he tries to to get the puppy to some rocket place his brother wanted to visit.
<bot>: a crazy kid thinks his brother is reincarnated as a dog, so he takes the dogs to do the things his brother wanted to do