Request #488 From Kylee

I read this book as a kid, around 2010. The cover ripped off so I don’t remember what it looked like at all, but it was about this stray dog (p sure it was a mutt) who either gets hit by a car or almost does, and gets taken in by this kid who I think has red hair? And this kid is trying to build a rocketship to leave him home. It’s from the POV of the dog and he teaches you Spanish throughout the book. They eventually build the rocketship and landed on an island, where the dog writes “HELP” in the sand and discovers he can write. It’s revealed at the end that he wrote the whole book. A little silly but I loved it as a kid and I miss it.