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Author
Series
Bow-Wow (Picture books) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
A wordless picture book about a persistent terrier who follows a bug through his neighborhood.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A little white dog that nobody seems to want finds just the right home--and a name. No one wants the nameless little dog wandering the streets looking unsuccessfully for food and shelter until kindhearted Fred and Lucy, a young couple, take him inside. After they feed him rice pudding and bathe him, they realize that they cannot bear to return him to the pound. Newly adopted, McDuff–named that night for their favorite shortbread biscuit–is last...
3) One Good Dog
Author
Series
One good dog volume 1
Pub. Date
[2010]
Formats
Description
Adam March is a self-made 3zMaster of the Universe.3y He has it all: the beautiful wife, the high-powered job, the glittering circle of friends.
5) The drop
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Formats
Description
"Based on the screenplay he developed for Twentieth Century Fox from his short story "Animal Rescue," New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane's The Drop follows a former criminal whose efforts to build a new life with his girlfriend and pit bull rescue puppy fall apart when he becomes mixed up in a robbery gone wrong; scheduled for release in Fall 2014, Fox's film of the same title stars James Gandolfini (in his final on-screen performance),...
Author
Series
Puppy patrol volume 4
Pub. Date
2000, c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
When Sugar and Spice, two undisciplined West Highland white terriers, disappear from Neil Parker's parents' boarding kennel, Neil must track them down before their owners return.
Author
Series
Lily to the rescue volume 1
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Lily meets a crow with a broken wing, so she and Maggie Rose take the crow home to Mom. But when the crow starts to become too tame, some unexpected problems arise. It's Lily to the rescue!
12) Lila and Hadley
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Hadley is an angry girl: angry at her mother for embezzling money, angry at her estranged older sister, Beth, whom she has to live with while her mother is in jail, angry at having to move to Kentucky away from her friends, and angry at the world because she has retinitis pigmentosa and is slowly going blind; but then she meets Lila, a rescued pit bull who has not responded to anyone else--so if Hadley can train Lila, maybe the dog can get adopted...
15) Dog lost
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
After living happily in a warm home with an eleven-year-old boy, a pit bull terrier is forced to survive on the streets, where its brave deeds surprise many residents who dislike or fear pit bulls.
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Description
" Incredibull Stella reminds us that we are here to love, be loved, and be rescued." Jackson Galaxy While recovering from a serious illness, Marika Meeks adopted an abandoned pit bull puppy and named her Stella. Together, they healed each other . . . Marika Meeks fell in love with Stella the moment she saw her. The adorable pit bull puppy had been abandoned in a cold field in winterbut her warm, friendly eyes and boundless affection could melt anyones...
17) Stay with me
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Fifteen-year-olds Mack, a high school drop-out but a genius with dogs, and Cece, who hopes to use her intelligence to avoid a life like her mother's, meet and fall in love at the restaurant where they both work, but when Mack lands in prison he pushes Cece away and only a one-eared pit-bull can keep them together.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
When Bronwen Dickey brought her new dog home, she saw no traces of the infamous viciousness in her affectionate, timid pit bull. Which made her wonder: how had the breed--beloved by Teddy Roosevelt, Helen Keller, TV's "Little Rascals"--come to be known as a brutal fighter. Her search for answers takes her from nineteenth-century New York City dogfighting pits--the cruelty of which helped spark the founding of the ASPCA--to early twentieth-century...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
In 1990, poet Eileen Myles chose Rosie from a litter of pit bulls on the street, and their connection instantly became central to the writer's life and work. During the course of their sixteen years together, Myles was madly devoted to the dog's well-being, especially in her final days. Starting from the emptiness following Rosie's death, Afterglow launches a heartfelt and fabulist investigation into the true nature of the bond between pet and pet...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A rescue dog to the rescue! Lily is the smallest puppy in her litter and the only girl. Her brothers are bigger and stronger and like to push her around. When Lily meets a girl named Maggie Rose at the animal shelter, Lily discovers things are not so bad. Lily's size means that she can help other animals who are in trouble. It's Lily to the rescue!