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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
When her blind dog slips his collar, twelve-year old Lily meets Salma Santiago, a young Hispanic girl whose migrant family are in Maine for the blueberry-picking season, and, based partly on their mutual love of dogs, the two forge a friendship while painting bee boxes for Lily's grandfather--but as the Blueberry Queen pageant approaches Lily and Selma are confronted with some of the hard truths of prejudice and migrant life.
25) Buddy
Author
Series
Dog diaries volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
A German shepherd describes her life as the first guide dog trained to serve the blind.
26) Mountain dog
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
When his mother is sent to jail in Los Angeles, eleven-year-old Tony goes to live with his forest ranger great-uncle in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where Tony experiences unconditional love for the first time through his friendship with a rescue dog.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
After being framed by a jealous poodle, a dachshund is left for dead, but comes back with a group of mutts from the National Last Ditch Dog Depository to disrupt the prestigious Westminster Kennel Club dog show and exact revenge on Cassius the poodle.
Author
Series
Dog's purpose volume 4
Publisher
Starscape / A Tom Doherty Association Book
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Trained as a search-and-rescue dog since puppyhood, Ellie can track and find people who are physically lost, but it is her owners, widower Jakob and lonely Maya, who challenge her to find a way to save people who are lost in other ways.
Author
Series
Dog watch volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
The dogs of Pembrook, Minnesota investigate when one of the town's dogs mysteriously disappears.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Birdie Gaux's dog, Bowser, considers himself in charge of security at 19 Gentilly Lane, so when the house is broken into Bowser wants to find the man with the limeade aftershave (and the cat) responsible--but nobody seems to know what the culprits were looking for, or why a strange girl is asking questions about Birdie's father, a policeman who was killed in the line of duty years before Bowser was adopted.
32) Big Ben
Author
Series
Puppy patrol volume 02
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
1999, c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Ben, a noisy old English sheepdog, is not very popular. Especially with his neighbors, Mrs. Fitz and her pampered poodle, Sheba -- they can't stand Ben's howling and barking!
33) Bow wow
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Bowser the mutt lives with eleven-year-old Birdie Gaux and her grandmother in the normally quiet Louisiana bayou town of St. Roch, but news that a Bull shark has somehow made its way into the swamp has everyone excited, and the cash bounty for landing the shark has lured some very shady characters into town--one hunter in particular is prepared to go to any lengths to collect the money.
34) Gully's travels
Author
Publisher
Michael Di Capua Books/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Gulliver leads a life of luxury with his master. But when his master falls in love with a woman who is allergic to dogs, Gulliver is sent to a new home. He finds himself with a family of raucous human beings and three mutts. But just as Gulliver begins to make a grudging peace with his new reality, he gets swept up in a harrowing new adventure.
35) Ribsy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
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Formats
Description
Separated from his owner, Henry Huggins, in a shopping center parking lot, an ordinary city dog begins a string of bewildering adventures.
36) Barry
Author
Series
Dog diaries volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Barry der Menschenretter, a Saint Bernard dog, reflects back on his life in the early 1800s at the Hospice of the Great Saint Bernard in the Swiss Alps, where he rescued some forty people from avalanches. Includes facts about the breed and the hospice.
Author
Series
Publisher
Starscape
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
When Bailey meets eight-year-old Ethan, he quickly figures out his purpose: to play with the boy, to explore the Farm during summers with the boy, and to tidy the boy's dishes by licking them clean (only when Mom isn't watching). But Bailey soon learns that life isn't always so simple--that sometimes bad things happen--and that there can be no greater purpose than to protect the boy he loves.
39) Saving Skye
Author
Series
Puppy patrol volume 7
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Skye, old Mr. Bradshaw's beautiful collie, needs a new home. Neil and Emily are sure she would fit in perfectly at King Street Kennels.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"Buck is a well-loved and happy dog, living on a ranch with other happy dogs and an owner who loves him. But one night, he is taken from his loving home, forced to work hard pulling sleds with a team of other unkind dogs. He quickly learns that to survive, he must set his wild side free. This new adaptation of Jack London's classic novel tells the story of a loveable dog seeking his purpose and belonging, and ultimately deciding if he should answer...
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