Shiloh Desperate Amateurs -

"Shiloh" is a novel by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor that tells the story of an 11-year-old boy named Marty Preston who lives in a small town in West Virginia. Marty finds a beagle puppy that he names Shiloh, but the dog belongs to his neighbor, Judd Travers, a cruel and abusive man who mistreats his dogs.