SHEEP by Valerie Hobbs

iwb does a gray guy check hands for grime and dirt?

iwb did the book did the main character learn to read by sticking a nose into White Fang?

iwb does a character die in a goat cart?

iwb does a character have a dismal "hiding place" with broken bottles and a bicycle wheel threaded with cobwebs?

iwb isThe Good Shepherd Home for Boys described as a pound for kids?

iwb did a character say he'd had bigger dreams than a mule.

iwb did a rope tied around a character's neck prevent him from catching a train to California?

iwb did a character sell "Words of Wisdom" cards?

iwb did an animal trainer smell worse than elephant dung?

iwb was a dress with a matching bonnet put onto a character who was then pushed around in a baby stroller?

iwb was the stench of fear hanging in the air in a big gray barn?

iwb did an orphaned boy speak to an animal "man to man?"

iwb did a dog play dead so that a thief could pick pockets?

iwb did a character notice strange blue, gold, and green creatures with round staring eyes and wavy tails?

iwb did a character describe people by the way they smelled?

iwb did the fellas go to work in the back of a rusty, red truck?

iwb did a dog narrate the story?