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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: 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ENG

Wroblewski, David.

Summary: A tale reminiscent of "Hamlet" that also celebrates the alliance between humans and dogs follows speech-disabled Wisconsin youth Edgar, who bonds with three yearling canines and struggles to prove that his sinister uncle is responsible for his father's death.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2008

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WRO

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC Wroblewski 2008

Dinerstein, Eric

Summary: Thirteen-year-old Nanda Singh, the youngest elephant driver in Nepal, enjoys a very special relationship with his tusker, Hira Prashad, through which he grows in understanding and compassion with all animals, including humans.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DIN

Driscoll, Laura

Summary: In the jungles of India, Mowgli, a human boy, grows up under the protection and tutelage of a pack of wolves, Shere Khan the tiger, Bagheera the panther, and Baloo the bear, but must choose one day between humans and his animal family.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016

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McCarthy, Cormac

Summary: Billy and Boyd Parham are two boys living in New Mexico on the cusp of unimaginable events in the years before the Second World War. First comes a trespassing Indian and the dream of wolves running wild among cattle. Billy traps a she-wolf, intending to restore it to the mountains of New Mexico. But when he returns, he finds everything he left behind utterly transformed.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCC

Angus, Sam.

Summary: Follows the World War I experiences of Stanley, who upon joining the war effort to escape his father is assigned to the experimental War Dog School, where he trains a Great Dane with whom he attempts to find his missing soldier brother.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2013

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ANG

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ANG

Millet, Lydia

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2008

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Harrison, Jim

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1971

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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL FIC HAR

Fletcher, Susan

Summary: Twelve-year-old Arthur forms a bond with a polar bear given by King Haakon IV of Norway to King Henry III of England in 1252 while traveling as her handler. Includes historical notes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2018

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Hlad, Alan

Summary: "It is September 1940-a year into the war-and as German bombs fall on Britain, fears grow of an impending invasion. Enemy fighter planes blacken the sky around the Epping Forest home of Susan Shepherd and her grandfather, Bertie. After losing her parents to influenza as a child, Susan found comfort in raising homing pigeons with Bertie. All her birds are extraordinary to Susan-loyal,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HLA

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HLA

Hinojosa, Stacy

Summary: Stacy was raised by wolves. She's never needed humans to survive and, from what she sees of humans, they're dangerous and unpredictable. For as long as she can remember, Stacy's pack of six powerful, playful wolves have been her only family. Together, Stacy's pack patrols the forest to keep other animals safe, relying on her wits and each wolf's unique abilities to accomplish risky rescue...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2018

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Hayes, Joe.

Summary: After saving a rattlesnake's life out in the desert, Joe discovers the snake has followed him home and although his father is annoyed and the neighbors terrified, the snake soon proves his worth as a pet and protector.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Consortium Book Sales & Dist 2014

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 HAY

Shirakawa, Gin

Summary: "Nanao used to be a house cat, but after tragedy struck, he was abandoned on the rough streets of Tokyo. Now, alongside his best friend and fellow stray Machi, Nanao has to fight every day just to get by. Aside from foraging for food and finding somewhere to sleep, Nanao and Machi must remain vigilant about all sorts of dangers, including humans who want stray cats gone. When a woman named...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas 2023

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May, Kyla

Summary: When their friend Jack cannot join them, Bub the pug and his human, Bella, vow to bring him souvenirs from their road trip, and despite some bumps along the way, Bub calls their trip a big success.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic Inc. 2022

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Martel, Yann.

Summary: Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift on a raft with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for company.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2003

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May, Kyla

Summary: "When Bella wins a poster-making contest at the animal shelter, she gets to be queen of the "Adopt-an-Animal" parade. That can only mean one thing... Bub the pug is her prince! But Bub has no idea what a prince does. Can he figure it out in time to help Bella be the best queen she can be?"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic Inc. 2023

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May, Kyla

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Summary: It is Bub the pug's first trip to the beach, and Bella wants to enter him in a pet-surfing contest, but Bub is scared of the ocean and refuses, so he hopes to make it up to Bella by presenting her with the treasure at the end of the map he found.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic Inc. 2024

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Kochar, Amandeep S.

Summary: "It's dog-yoga day at the green space next to the animal shelter and Jeet, Fudge, and their friends are eager to join in to help manage their nerves about summer ending and school starting. Hilarity ensues when Fudge finds multiple ways to interrupt the practice. But that won't stop the friends from finding their calm!"--P. [4] of cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Paw Prints Publishing 2023

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE KOC

Tan, Susan

Summary: Lucy's grandmother Poh Poh and her poodle Fluffy arrive for a visit, and Fluffy immediately begins building a doomsday machine that will hypnotize humans and turn them into agents of chaos--can Ember work with the other neighborhood pets to outsmart this evil genius?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic Inc. 2022

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE TAN

Cameron, W. Bruce

Summary: 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!

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Starscape 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC CAM

Bailey, Susanna

Summary: When eleven-year-old Addie goes to stay with a foster-care family on a remote Exmoor farm in the midst of a very cold winter, she is full of hurt, anger and a deep mistrust of everyone around her. Until one day, when she rescues a tiny wild foal from the moorland snow and Addie discovers that perhaps she's not so alone after all. And as adventure and unexpected friendship blossom, Addie is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BAI

Coe, Victoria J.

Summary: "When Fenway's beloved short human, Hattie, brings home a rival pet in the form of a fluffy, twitching rabbit, Fenway's determined to oust the intruder--but doing so will cost him"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2017

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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC COE

Rubin, Adam

Summary: When grumpy Old Man Fookwire builds feeders to try to keep birds--the only creatures he likes--from leaving for the winter, he finds himself in a battle with clever, crafty squirrels who want a share of the abundant food.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sandpiper 2011

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC Rub

Van Dusen, Chris

Summary: After courageously swimming to shore when the ship that they are traveling on sinks and the wretched captain does nothing to rescue them, circus animals find a way to become a valued part of a coastal community.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2009

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VAN

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