Engle, Margarita.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Square Fish/Henry Holt and Co. 2014
Copies Available at Cherry Street Intermediate
1 available in Fiction, Call number: FIC ENGLarson, Kirby.
Summary: In 1944, Hobie Hanson's father is flying B-24s in Europe, so Hobie decides to donate his beloved German shepherd, Duke, to Dogs for Defense in the hope that it will help end the war sooner--but when he learns that Duke is being trained for combat he is shocked, frightened, and determined to get his dog back.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2015
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Summary: A book about the lives our pets lead after we leave for work or school each day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Picture Books, Call number: JE MAN-KONGBarrow, Randi G.
Summary: In 1945 Russia, those who own German shepherds are considered traitors, but thirteen-year-old Mikhail and his family are determined to keep the dog a dying man brought them, while his classmate Katia strives to learn his secret.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2013
Copies Available at Kalkaska High School
1 available in Fiction, Call number: Y FICTION BARROWOsborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: Jack and Annie travel to a monastery in the Swiss Alps where, with the help of St. Bernard dogs and magic, they seek the second of four special objects necessary to break the spell on the wizard Merlin's beloved penguin, Penny.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011
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1 available in Fiction, Call number: F OSBTeague, Mark.
Summary: Gertrude LaRue receives typewritten and paw-written letters from her dog Ike, entreating her to let him leave the Igor Brotweiler Canine Academy and come back home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2002
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1 available in Picture Books, Call number: E TEACopies Available at Birch Street Elementary
1 available in Picture Books, Call number: JE TEAGUESinger, Marilyn
Summary: "From morning to night, a cat and dog who live together show their innate feline and canine natures. The dog barks at the delivery man while the cat barely notices; the dog runs out to play when the children return from school, while the cat prefers to keep napping on the soft couch. Neither gets the better of the other in their rhyming interchanges, and by day's end they realize that, despite...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Picture Books, Call number: JE SINGERCopies Available at Rapid City Elementary
1 available in Picture Books, Call number: JE SINGERBlabey, Aaron
Summary: Pig the Pug often lies to get what he wants, and blames Trevor the sausage dog for his own misdeeds--but when his latest lie results in an accident and the loss of a tooth he finally learns his lesson (maybe).
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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1 available in Picture Books, Call number: JE BLABEYCasteel, Seth.
Summary: Photographs and simple, rhyming text reveal what goes on beneath the surface as various dogs swim to fetch their favorite toys. Includes facts about the different dog breeds depicted.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2013
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1 available in Non-fiction, Call number: 636.1 CasYohalem, Eve
Summary: "Thirteen-year-old Blue Broen teams up with her diabetic alert dog and the spoiled daughter of a vacationing movie star on a treasure hunt to find her family's ancestral fortune"--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Collection, Call number: WB J FICTION YOHALEMEggers, Dave
Summary: Free dog Johannes' job is to observe everything that happens in his urban park and report back to the park's three bison elders, but changes are afoot, including more humans, a new building, a boatload of goats, and a shocking revelation that changes his view of the world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Summary: Emily Elizabeth, having learned about elections at school, nominates Clifford to be president of the dog park.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2004
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1 available in Beginning Readers, Call number: READER FIGUEROAKensky, Jessica
Summary: Rescue thought he'd grow up to be a Seeing Eye dog -- it's the family business, after all. When he gets the news that he's better suited to being a service dog, he's worried that he's not up to the task. Then he meets Jessica, a girl whose life is turning out differently than the way she'd imagined it, too. Now Jessica needs Rescue by her side to help her accomplish everyday tasks. And it turns...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy Collection, Call number: JE KENSKYDerting, Kimberly
Summary: Cece, a budding and inquisitive scientist, and her equally curious best friend Isaac conduct experiments to see whether Cece's dog Einstein will eat his vegetables.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy Collection, Call number: JE DERTINGBridwell, Norman.
Summary: Auntie, who is a dog trainer, thinks Clifford needs to learn obedience, but to Emily Elizabeth the big red dog is perfect already.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2002
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1 available in Picture Books, Call number: E BRIInches, Alison.
Summary: Blue's class goes to the fair and, when some of the rides seem too scary, Polka Dots comes to the rescue. Features rebuses.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight/Nick Jr. 2005
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1 available in Beginning Readers, Call number: READER INCHESCameron, W. Bruce
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Starscape 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Collection, Call number: J FICTION CAMERONAnderson, Scoular.
Summary: Stan the dog determines to make some changes in order to show everyone at the local dog show that he isn't lazy and clumsy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2007
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1 available in Fiction, Call number: F ANDSchachner, Judith Byron.
Summary: Skippyjon Jones, the Siamese cat that thinks he is a Chihuahua dog, has an adventure on Mars.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2009
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2 available in Picture Books, Call number: JE SCHACHNERFrith, Michael K.
Summary: A youngster plans all the things he will teach his puppy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beginner Books 1973
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1 available in Juvenile Readers, Call number: READER FRITH 1/2McKay, Sindy.
Summary: A boy dreams that he and his dog have fantastic adventures.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Treasure Bay 1999
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2 available in Stacks, Call number: PB NEWDeFelice, Cynthia C.
Summary: Being sent to stay with grandparents he hardly knows is hard enough for twelve-year-old Eric, whose parents are deployed to Iraq, but his grandfather's hostility and the threat of losing the dog he rescues causes Eric to run away.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus and Giroux 2011
Copies Available at Cherry Street Intermediate
1 available in Fiction, Call number: [Fic] DEFCatrow, David.
Summary: Jack Spaniel goes on a dinosaur hunt in his own backyard and makes some surprising finds.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 2009
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1 available in Beginning Readers, Call number: READER CATROWPilkey, Dav
Summary: A monstrous mutt terrorizes the residents of Mousopolis in this spoof of the Godzilla movies.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 1993