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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
"Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, but he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and- run accident when he was seven, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself and his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it. Charlie starts doing...
Author
Series
Henry Huggins volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
Español
Formats
Description
When Henry adopts Ribsy, a dog of no particular breed, humorous adventures follow.
Author
Series
Shiloh quartet volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
When mean and angry Judd, who has never known kindness, takes to drinking and mistreats his dogs, Marty discovers how deep a hurt can go and how long it takes to heal.
Author
Series
Nate the Great volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Even a deep snow the week before Christmas can't keep Nate the Great and his dog Sludge from finding the special card sent to Annie's dog Fang by his mother.
Author
Series
Encyclopedia Brown volume 21
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
America's Sherlock Holmes in sneakers continues his war on crime in ten more cases, the solutions to which are found in the back of the book.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the play but his life as well.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born--a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam--and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is...
10) Liberty
Author
Series
Dogs of World War II volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1940s New Orleans, Fish Elliot is a polio-survivor with a knack for inventing and building things, and his African American neighbor Olympia is a girl with a talent for messing things up, but they are united in an effort to save a starving stray dog they call Liberty--and when Liberty is caged by a nasty farmer, they find an unlikely ally in a German prisoner of war, Erich, who is not much older than the two children.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her lab assistant, Igor the dog, swallows a doomsday device with a ticking clock, Franny K. Stein shrinks herself down in a miniature machine and enters the body of her beloved pooch to track down the device and stop it from going off.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Thirty-something veterinarian Ally Winter has found a new "leash" on life since she moved back to her hometown of Willow Bluff, Wisconsin. But when she takes Domino, the black standard poodle she's boarding for the weekend, for a sunny September stroll along the shore of Lake Michigan, the diminutive dog dashes off, only to return with a single, polka-dotted, high-heeled shoe. Retracing Domino's paw prints back to a weeping willow tree, they find...
Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
This time Ranger, the time-traveling Golden retriever, finds himself in San Francisco in the middle of the great 1906 earthquake, and his mission is obviously to get a young Chinese immigrant, Lily Chen, to safety, but as they make their way through the ruined and burning city Ranger finds that he must also accomplish something else--finding Lily, who was sold as a servant by her parents, a new family who will care for her.
14) The Wizard of Oz
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
After being transported by a cyclone to the land of Oz, Dorothy and her dog are befriended by a scarecrow, a tin man, and a cowardly lion, who accompany her to the Emerald City to look for a wizard who can help Dorothy return home to Kansas.
15) Bleach
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Shonen jump graphic novel ed.
Physical Desc
v : chiefly ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Bunnicula series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
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Description
This reissue of the classic story featuring the vampire rabbit celebrates the book's twentieth anniversary. Includes an essay by co-author James Howe on the origins of "Bunnicula."
18) Beastars
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media LLC
Pub. Date
2019-
Edition
Viz signature edition.
Physical Desc
volumes : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"At a high school where the students are literally divided into predators and prey, friendships maintain the fragile peace. Who among them will become a Beastar- a hero destined to lead in a society naturally rife with mistrust?"--
19) Always
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 20 x 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A loyal dog promises to protect his young mistress and her home from any danger.
Author
Series
Nate the Great volume 26
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Nate and his dog Sludge help Rosamond discover who has been tearing pages out of her books.
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