Miles, Ellen
Summary: Meeting an untrained English cream golden retriever while on a beach vacation at the Fair Harbor Inn, Charles Peterson and his pet-fostering family work to teach the rambunctious pup what she needs to learn to find a permanent home. Includes tips for travelling with your dog.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED PPMiles, Ellen
Summary: "Charles and Lizzie Peterson love puppies. Their family fosters these young dogs, giving them love and proper care, until they can find the perfect forever home. When Charles and Lizzy find Scruffy stuck in a fence at a scary old house, they aren't sure if she's lost or been abandoned. Either way, Scruffy has learned that smiling at humans always gets her what she wants... and soon so does the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2023
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Summary: Charles and Lizzie Peterson love puppies. Their family fosters these young dogs, giving them love and proper care, until they can find the perfect forever home. Barkley takes Lizzies breath away ... literally! Barkley, the Great Pyrenees, is a ball of energy, and far too big for the apartment he has been living in. Lizzie does her best to teach him manners, but she can't make him smaller! Then...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MILMiles, Ellen
Summary: Bingo is a lab mix. He's also blind. Bingo can learn to cope, but he needs Lizzie's help, and he just might need a friend, too. By the end of the story Bingo will have his very own guide dog!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2022
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Summary: Lizzie is excited for her trip to Aunt Amanda's sleepaway doggy training camp. But when Donut, a German shepard-Lab mix, is in danger of being left behind by her family, Lizzie will use her new skills to show the pup is well-trained enough for their new home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2021
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Summary: "Waffles is exuberant, playful, and smart – maybe too smart! She’s quite the escape artist and Lizzie has her hands full trying to keep tabs on her." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2024
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Summary: At Loon Lake Park, Charles and his Cub Scout friends are told that a dog has been abandoned in the parking lot. Louie, a not-so-small Newfoundland puppy, is quickly taken in and cared for by the group. Can Charles and his friends find Louie a perfect, and roomy, forever home?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED PP MILMiles, Ellen
Summary: Lizzie has competition as a foster puppy parent at Caring Paws! While volunteering, she meets Harper, who might know more about dogs than Lizzie does! But when Sparky, a tiny Chihuahua mix, arrives with an injured leg, the two girls will have to team up to find this sweet, strong puppy a perfect home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2021
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Summary: "Charles and Lizzie Peterson love puppies. Their family fosters these young dogs, giving them love and proper care, until they can find the perfect forever home. Charles can't catch a break. He's never gotten into trouble in class before. Then he spotted that stray dog running around his school. Now it seems like everything he does lands him in the principal's office. Will Charles be able to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016
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3 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MILMiles, Ellen
Summary: Offering to foster sweet Rottweiler puppy Molly while she waits to find a forever home, Charles learns that Rottweilers are associated with violent behavior and struggles with feelings of fear before realizing that Molly has a truly gentle personality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2013
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Summary: "Charles and Lizzie Peterson love puppies. Their family fosters these young dogs, giving them love and proper care, until they can find the perfect forever home. When their mom sits the family down for a talk, Charles and Lizzie are excited to hear that they'll be fostering Zig and Zag, twin Brittany puppies! Double the puppies should mean double the fun, but the twins are very hyper and need a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MILMiles, Ellen.
Summary: Charles and Lizzie Peterson try to find Maggie, the Saint Bernard dog, and Max, the cat, homes before Christmas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MILMiles, Ellen.
Summary: "Lizzie is at the animals shelter when an emergency case is brought in. Bella, a newborn cocker spaniel, is not doing well. She's way too small and has a hard time eating. Lizzie's heart melts for the puppy but she's never taken care of a dog this young before. Will Lizzie be able to nurse this poor pup back to health?" (publisher).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2011
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Summary: When the Petersons arrive in Misty Valley for the weekend, Charles learns that a Weimaraner puppy named Bentley is in need of a home and works to find him his forever home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2019
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Summary: Charles and Lizzie Peterson love puppies. Their family fosters these young dogs, giving them love and proper care, until they can find the perfect forever home. Bubbles is a lonely poodle puppy. Boo is an adorable bunny rabbit. When both of these pets end up at Lizzie's house for fostering, nobody expects them to become best friends. But they do and now they're inseparable! Can Lizzie find the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MILMiles, Ellen
Summary: This puppy is quite a handful. He doesn't listen, he's obsessed with his toy sheep, and he can't ride in the car without...um...getting sick. Has Lizzie met her match, or will she be able to train this pugnacious pug?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED PP MILMiles, Ellen
Summary: Mom Peterson has trouble finding a family good enough to adopt the adorable Labradoodle, Gus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MILMiles, Ellen
Summary: When Charles and his friends find Lola stuck outside right before a rainstorm, they have a tough decision to make. They know the bulldog has a home, but isn't safe locked outside during the storm. Should they take the puppy with them or let her ride out the weather?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016
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Summary: When Cocoa, a large chocolate Lab puppy, accidentally knocks over her elderly owner, Charles convinces his parents to foster the excitable dog, but can the Peterson household survive Cocoa's high-energy behavior?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2012
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Summary: When Charles finds Lucy, a basset mix puppy who has lost her home in a flood, he becomes determined to find her a good home, but his efforts are complicated when items go missing in the Peterson house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2012
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Summary: "Welcome to the Puppy Place, where every puppy finds a home!Charles and Lizzie Peterson love puppies. Their family fosters these young dogs, giving them love and proper care, until they can find the perfect forever home. When Lizzie gets a phone call from Aunt Amanda about Oscar, a schnauzer, she wants to help. But this puppy has trouble getting along with other dogs. Will Lizzie be able to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2013
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Summary: Charles and Lizzie Peterson are very good with puppies. They want one of their own, but their mom isn't ready for them to have one full time. So for now, they take care of puppies that need help finding new homes. The Peterson kids hear about Snowball. Someone left the fluffy puppy all alone at the gas station. Snowball is sick and hungry. He needs a family of his own ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2006
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Summary: Lizzie is shocked to see that Aunt Amanda has returned home from her vacation with an injured puppy. Bonita is a street dog with a hurt leg. Lizzie and her friends decide to raise the money for the puppy's operation. Will Lizzie be able to help this sweet dog?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MILCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED PP MILMiles, Ellen
Summary: Attending his father's annual softball game, Charles spies Champ, a German shepherd puppy that needs to be fostered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016