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Author
Series
The Macmillan classics volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The domesticated life of a powerful St. Bernard-Shepherd mix named Buck is quickly turned on end when he is stolen away from his master and put to work as a sled dog in Alaska. His once life of luxury turns into a life of survival and adaptation as he learns the ways of the wilderness.
Set in the Klondike region of Canada during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, The Call of the Wild showcases the transformation of a canine as he learns to adapt to what...
Author
Series
The One and Only Ivan volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bob sets out on a dangerous journey in search of his long-lost sister with the help of his two best friends, Ivan and Ruby. As a hurricane approaches and time is running out, Bob finds courage he never knew he had and learns the true meaning of friendship and family.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
One summer's day, ten-year-old India Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries--and comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog. It's because of Winn-Dixie that Opal begins to make friends. And it's because of Winn-Dixie that she finally dares to ask her father about her mother, who left when Opal was three. In fact, as Opal admits, just about everything that happens that summer is because of Winn-Dixie.
Author
Series
Survivors volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of the Big Growl that destroyed his former home, Lucky, a golden-haired mutt, may have to relinquish his loner spirit and join a pack in order to survive new dangers for which he isn't prepared.
Author
Series
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First US edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
181 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Junior leads his pack of dog friends on a sneaky mission into a museum to steal dinosaur bones for Lola's midnight birthday feast.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
249 pages, 9 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Chester has always wanted to become a service dog, but when he fails his certification test it seems like that dream will never come true, that is until a family adopts him to be a companion for their ten-year-old son, Gus, who has autism.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Alternates between the detective work of middle-schooler Jesse and her new friend, Springer, after her father is accused of stealing, and post-tornado rescue efforts of Jesse and her Pomeranian, Sam-Sam.
Author
Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Documents the heroic wartime achievements of a World War I mascot who was adopted by a soldier as an orphaned pup and who gained military honors and a display in the Smithsonian Institution for his brave service behind enemy lines.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Johannes is a free dog, a fast dog--such a fast dog! He lives in an urban park by the sea, and every day, he runs through the park, seeing all, missing nothing, and reporting what he sees to the park's three ancient Bison, the Keepers of the Equilibrium. But the Equilibrium has been disrupted. Mysterious rectangles are hypnotizing Johannes, the humans are erecting a mysterious new building, and an entirely new kind of animal has arrived in the park--and...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
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.
14) White Fang
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
White Fang is a novel by American author Jack London (1876–1916) — and the name of the book's eponymous character, a wild wolf dog. First serialized in Outing magazine, it was published in 1906. The story takes place in Yukon Territory, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush and details White Fang's journey to domestication. It is a companion novel (and a thematic mirror) to London's best-known work, The Call of the Wild, which is about a...
15) Lily's story
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
When she is placed in an animal shelter, small puppy Lily discovers things are not so bad and that her size means that she can help other animals who are in trouble.
16) Shiloh
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
17) Frogkisser!
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Princess Anya sets out to defeat her step-stepfather Duke Rikard, who is an evil wizard determined to rule the kingdom, with help from the librarian Gotfried and the Royal Dogs.
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
81 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Still grieving over the death of her hero, and missing her stolen horse and kidnapped younger sister, Kaya tries to earn the trust of a lone and starving dog who is about to have puppies.
19) Garbage night
Author
Publisher
Nobrow (US)
Pub. Date
c2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
98 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a barren and ransacked backyard, a dog named Simon lives with his two best friends: a raccoon and a deer. The unlikely gang spends their days looting the desolate supermarket and waiting for the return of the hallowed garbage night but week after week, the bins remain empty. While scavenging one day, the trio meet Barnaby another abandoned dog who tells them about the other town where humans are still rumored to live. Spurred on by hunger and the...
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 3
Publisher
Harcourt Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
92 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this story told mostly through letters, Noah Breth's feuding children come to Ghastly, Illinois, to follow a trail of limericks to their inheritance, while Seymour tries to convince Iggy and Olive to let him keep Mr. Breth's dog.