https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5 "Tony Must Learn to Trust" This story is set in the mountains in Montana in present day. en-us 2017-02-22 19:47:30 UTC 2024-04-14 17:03:48 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Xmastree.png mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155583947 Tony is a 12 year old Mexican boy.

His mother was sent to prison for dog fighting and selling drugs.

Now, Tony has no idea where he will live.

He says, "I have no friends, no hope" (p. 3)]]> 2017-02-22 19:50:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155583947 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155585424 2017-02-22 19:55:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155585424 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155586477 Tony gets sent to live with his uncle, Tio, a forest ranger. Tio uses dogs to rescue people.
He has a chocolate lab named Gabe]]> 2017-02-22 19:58:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155586477 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155587857 Gabe loves Tony right away.]]> 2017-02-22 20:03:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155587857 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155589170 Tony's life was very hard with his mom. She made him help with dog fights and selling drugs.]]> 2017-02-22 20:07:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155589170 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155591607 Tony has bad nightmares from the scary fights and bad people. ]]> 2017-02-22 20:15:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155591607 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155592445 Gabe makes Tony feel safer, but Tony still can't trust anyone.]]> 2017-02-22 20:19:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155592445 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155593024 Tony starts to help Tio train SAR (search and resuce) dogs every day.]]> 2017-02-22 20:21:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155593024 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155598325 Tony still has nightmares. Plus, he's also very afraid to go visit his mom in prison]]> 2017-02-22 20:40:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155598325 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155599069 When he gets there, she doesn't even come see him!  She tells the guard she'd rather stay and watch a movie instead.]]> 2017-02-22 20:43:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155599069 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155599253 Tony thinks that if his OWN MOM doesn't care about him, no one else ever will either.]]> 2017-02-22 20:43:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155599253 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155599845 2017-02-22 20:46:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155599845 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155600643 One time Tio has to go on a search and he tells Tony to stay home.]]> 2017-02-22 20:49:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155600643 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155601044 2017-02-22 20:51:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155601044 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155601111 But Tony disobeys and goes off to look for Gabe and Tio. He knows Tio will be angry. He says Tio will send him away.]]> 2017-02-22 20:51:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155601111 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155601444 Tio does scold Tony, but he calls him "mijo," my son.]]> 2017-02-22 20:53:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155601444 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155602259 2017-02-22 20:56:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155602259 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155602413 Tony wonders if maybe Tio
 ever really could love him like a son.]]> 2017-02-22 20:56:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155602413 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155602602 But Tony is still afraid his mean mom will get out of prison and make him go back to his old, violent and scary life]]> 2017-02-22 20:57:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155602602 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155603473 Tony worries all the time that he can't trust this new life, and that he will lose Tio and Gabe.

Gabe feels his sadness.

Tio does too, but Tony can't talk to him yet.

So they just spend lots of time together training the dogs and teaching Tony how to be a SAR Ranger.]]> 2017-02-22 21:01:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155603473 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155604356 2017-02-22 21:05:55 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155604356 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155604577 2017-02-22 21:06:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155604577 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155611627 Tony can't trust his mom, but Gabe and Tio help him trust a little again.]]> 2017-02-22 21:46:37 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155611627 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155611928 2017-02-22 21:48:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155611928 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155612383 By now, Tony has been helping rescue people for a while. He thinks of Gabe and Tio as Family]]> 2017-02-22 21:51:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155612383 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155613070 2017-02-22 21:55:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155613070 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155613111 He thinks, "As long as we are together, I am safe." (p. 113). Is he trusting them?


]]> 2017-02-22 21:56:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155613111 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155613310 Tony gets more and more angry at his mom.

He wonders if Tio could keep him forever.

But Tio's cabin is small, and Tony thinks, "How long will it be before he sends me away?"

Gabe feels Tony's loneliness and stays by his side.]]> 2017-02-22 21:57:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155613310 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155614193 One day Tony opens up and tells Tio how he feels. 

Tio says Tony has to let the anger go if he's ever going to trust again.]]> 2017-02-22 22:02:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155614193 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155614630 2017-02-22 22:05:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155614630 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155620772 Soon it's hunting season and the wood are full of dangerous shooting.

 Gabe and Tio have to go rescue a lost hunter, and Tio tells Tony to stay at the Ranger Station where it is safe.

But Tony is terrified he will lose another family, so he disobeys and goes to find them.]]> 2017-02-22 22:40:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155620772 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155623409 2017-02-22 22:58:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155623409 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155623653 2017-02-22 22:59:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155623653 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155623824 2017-02-22 23:01:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155623824 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155624493 Tony knows better, and Tio will be FURIOUS.

Tony gets very lost. He knows the smartest thing to do is just stay in one place and wait for Rangers to find him.

It's very dark. This is BAD. Tio will send him away now, for sure. 

]]> 2017-02-22 23:05:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155624493 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155626247 2017-02-22 23:19:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155626247 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155626486 Tony spends a long night in the woods.

Eventually Gabe finds him]]> 2017-02-22 23:21:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155626486 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155627566 Tio is mad, but it's because he was so worried. He really loves Tony.

Tio is calm and patient, and Tony finally believes that Tio loves him no matter what.]]> 2017-02-22 23:30:55 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155627566 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155628626 In fact, Tio tells Tony he wants to raise him.

To adopt him. To be his FOREVER FAMILY.]]> 2017-02-22 23:41:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155628626 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155629315 Tony finally knows there are people he CAN trust no matter what.


TONY CAN TRUST AGAIN!]]> 2017-02-22 23:48:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/155629315 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/156285869 I relate to Tio because my mom has a student named Cariegh and she needed us like Tony needs Tio.]]> 2017-02-26 23:24:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/156285869 mbrownie222 https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/156285978 I recommend this book. Most readers who like books that have a lot going on would like this book. But I only told you part of it.]]> 2017-02-26 23:25:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mbrownie222/8n5kpfkx8yw5/wish/156285978