“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. […]