Avon Camelot, New York, 1996, 1^st pr. thus.  ISBN 0-380-72565-7.  Soft cover, 87 pages.  Very good; light edge and cover wear, tight binding with no reading creases; interior clean and unmarked with tanned/browning pages; appears unread.  Black & white illustrations by Michael Chesworth.  ‘”Stay out of trouble for one day, and you can have a dog,” Diz’s dad tells him.  “Oh, WOW!”  Diz has always wanted a dog, and so he’ll do anything to stay out of trouble!  But that’s before he sees a little puppy running down the street – with a mean man chasing it.  And before he reads his fortune in the newspaper:  TROUBLE WILL FIND YOU IF YOU LET IT!  Helping one little dog couldn’t get Diz in trouble… could it?’ (from rear wrap)