Domestic fiction. The award-winning bestseller is also a major motion picture from Twentieth Century Fox. When ten-year-old India Opal Buloni moves to Naomi, Florida, with her father, she doesn't know what to expect; least of all that she will adopt Winn-Dixie, a dog she names after the supermarket where they meet. Before long, Opal and her father realise, with a little help from Winn-Dixie, that while they've both tasted a bit of melancholy in they lives, they still have a lot to be thankful for.

9-12 yrs.