“I was attracted to Rotten by the arresting cover––a frontal image of a Rottweiler.” Scholastic Books (store.scholastic.com), 2013. 256 pages, hardcover. $17.99. As a child I was enthralled by dog stories, including Eric Knight’s Lassie, Come Home, Jack London’s Call of the Wild, and the entire Albert Payson Terhune series of books about collies. […]