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1) Guide dogs
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After hearing the command "Forward," a Labrador retriever crosses a city street. Its owner carefully grips the dogs harness. The handler is blind, but with his guide dog leading the way, he can safely cross the busy intersection. In this fascinating introduction to guide dogs, beginning readers will learn all about the hard-working canines that help their owners handle any obstacle. From avoiding dangerous traffic to climbing daunting stairs, guide...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes a day in the life of a seeing eye dog, from going with his owner to the grocery store and post office, to visiting a class of school children, and playing ball. Also describes their three-hundred mile walk from Boston to New York.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 53
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When they help out at a guide dog training school, the Alden children meet several people who seem obsessed with a particular dog named Ginger.
Author
Series
Dog's day volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sammy, a golden retriever, becomes a guide dog for Jessie, a college freshman who is blind, and constantly watches their big-city surroundings to keep her safe. Includes back matter about the breed and the role of the working dog.
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (246 pages)
Language
English
Description
"Max Edelman was just 17 when the Nazis took him from his Jewish ghetto in Poland to the first of five work camps, where his only hope of survival was to keep quiet and raise an emotional shield. After witnessing a German Shepherd kill a fellow prisoner, he developed a lifelong fear of dogs. Later beaten into blindness by two bored guards, Max survived, buried the past, and moved on to a new life in America, becoming an X-ray technician. But when...
8) Guide dogs
Author
Series
Publisher
Kidhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the breeding, training, and work done by guide dogs for the blind.
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 24 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explains how a golden retriever is trained as a service dog to help someone who has trouble moving their arms or legs, and later as a guide dog for a man who cannot see.
11) Little dog Moon
Author
Publisher
Stoddart Kids
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[23] p. : col. ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Language
English
12) Guide dogs
Author
Series
Publisher
Bearport
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the breed, selection, and training of guide dogs.
Publisher
distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : color, sd. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This primetime PBS documentary follows the inspiring stories of people with disabilities as they experience the heartwarming and sometimes challenging process of being matched with and receiving a service dog.
Author
Series
The puppy place. Main series volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2006, c2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
71 pages, 2 unnumbered ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Petersons are a foster family for dogs. When they take in a black Lab named Shadow, they realize the perfect job for him is as a guide dog.
17) Raising Lumie
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Newly orphaned and living with the half sister she hardly knows, twelve-year-old Olive rediscovers her hope when she starts training a guide dog puppy.
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