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Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When mean and angry Judd, who has never known kindness, takes to drinking and mistreats his dogs, Marty discovers how deep a hurt can go and how long it takes to heal.
3) Stormy
Author
Publisher
Bantam/StoryHouse
Pub. Date
1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
5) Outlaw Red
Author
Publisher
Bantam/StoryHouse
Pub. Date
1981
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
6) Ribsy
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Revised edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
180 p.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Squirrel, a stray puppy, tells her life story, from her nurturing mother and brother to making her own way in the world, facing busy highways, changing seasons, and humans both gentle and brutal.
9) Snow dog
Author
Publisher
Bantam/StoryHouse
Pub. Date
1980
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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10) Angus and Sadie
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Angus and Sadie, two siblings that are mostly border collie heritage, are adopted by a young couple and start living on a Maine farm, where they begin to learn sheep herding and come to appreciate how they are different from each other.
11) Saving Shiloh
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Sequel to Shiloh season. Sixth-grader Marty and his family try to help their rough neighbor, Judd Travers, change his mean ways, even though their West Virginia community continues to expect the worst of him.
12) SHILOH
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Marty Preston comes across a young beagle in the hills behind his home, it's love at first sight—and also big trouble. It turns out the dog, which Marty names Shiloh, belongs to Judd Travers, who drinks too much and has a gun—and abuses his dogs. So when Shiloh runs away from Judd to Marty, Marty just has to hide him and protect him from Judd. But Marty's secret becomes too big for him to keep to himself, and it exposes his entire family...
13) Strider
Author
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In a series of diary entries, Leigh tells how he comes to terms with his parents' divorce, acquires joint custody of an abandoned dog, and joins the track team at school.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
170 p.
Language
English
Description
Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer.
Author
Publisher
Puffin/Regent
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
121 p.
Language
English
Description
Hank the Cowdog series, bk. 9. Hank the cowdog has one of the scariest adventures of his life when he and his cowardly companion, Drover, find themselves in a strange and spooky place on Halloween night.
16) Nicki
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old Nicki agrees to take over the training of Sprocket, a service dog, it is just one more thing in her overly full schedule, but much to her surprise, dog training teaches Nicki a valuable skill--how to stand up for herself. Includes photographs and essay on training service dogs.