Catalog Search Results
1) Old Yeller
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In the rugged landscape of early frontier Texas, fourteen-year-old Travis faces taking over his family's farm and making a painful, important decision.
2) Sounder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and with the help of the devoted dog Sounder.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Thomas Singer is eleven years old. Soon, on his twelfth birthday, his father will present him with his first shotgun and take him on his first deer hunting trip. Thomas longed to go hunting all his young life, until the day he saw poachers shooting a deer, until the day he meet Emma. That day, as Thomas watched the wounded deer fall, something magical happened: a mysterious old woman suddenly rushed out from among the trees, laid her hands on the...
Author
Language
English
Description
In keeping with its reputation for size and spectacle, Texas has produced a staggering number of stars. Although many hailed from towns too small to have a post office, they occupied the spotlight on the largest of stages. Roger Miller's songs made him the "King of the Road," and Howard Hughes stretched his vision across the skies of the silver screen. Gene Autry won fame as a singing cowboy and Van Cliburn wore a tuxedo to international piano competitions,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Full of incredible canine capers, tales of doggy derring-do, and plenty of puppy facts, this dog-o-pedia is essential reading for dog lovers everywhere!
You'll learn tantalizing trivia and tidbits about all sorts of dogs, breeds, characters, and more! Find out the answers to these questions:
• Who are the most famous dog trainers in Hollywood, having trained Lassie, Toto, and Old Yeller, among many others?
• What is the name of Yale's bulldog...
Author
Language
English
Description
Is it better to live a life that is short and filled with joy or one that is long and safe?In the not-too-distant future, dogs have been genetically engineered to live as long as the people to which they are matched to avoid early heartbreak. Ten-year-old Will finds a natural mongrel puppy in the woods that he names Hunter. The two become fast friends and, even though it is illegal to harbor non-engineered natural dogs, Hunter soon wins over Will's...
Author
Language
English
Description
My grandfather James W. Taylor was in ministry for over sixty years! He and my grandmother started out with a canopy for tent revivals. Grandmother played the guitar and Pop preached! Everyone called grandma Mom. Pop and Mom knew Oral Roberts long before a University known as ORU was built in Tulsa, Oklahoma! After years of evangelism, Pop became a pastor. He pastored several churches in eastern Oklahoma for over forty years. Wilburton, Hartshorn,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Get the Summary of Kevin Hart and Neil Strauss's I Can't Make This Up in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Superstar comedian and Hollywood box-office star Kevin Hart turns his immense talent to the written word by writing some words. Some of those words include: the, a, for, above, and even even. Put them together and you have the funniest, most heartfelt, and most inspirational memoir...
10) Chester and Gus
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Chester, a service dog, is adopted into a family where he becomes a companion to Gus, a ten-year-old boy with nonverbal autism, who initially challenges Chester by requiring a different kind of friendship.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A young wolf cub, separated from his pack, journeys 1000 miles across the Pacific Northwest, dealing with forest fires, hunters, highways, and hunger before finding a new home. Based on the true story of a wolf called OR-7"--
Author
Language
English
Description
If there is one thing Mark Gaedtke does not want to do in life, it is to imagine his parents being romantic with each other. Yet as he reminisces about how he grew up in an old farmhouse in northern Wisconsin, Gaedtke cannot help but reflect on how his God-fearing mother and relentlessly sociable father managed to find the time to create six males and still get dinner on the table every night. In his collection of amusing recollections of his youth...
Author
Language
English
Description
A training manual for any dog owner using the tried, true, and trusted Weatherwax methods.
The name "Weatherwax" is widely known in the dog world. The author is a third-generation professional dog trainer and owner of Weatherwax Dog Training. The family has trained the original "Lassie" (actually a male named "Pal"), Toto for "The Wizard of Oz," and also "Old Yeller." These theories and tactics are applicable to any dog lover and owner, not just...
Author
Language
English
Description
The story begins in the small rural Alaskan Inupiaq Eskimo village of Point Hope, or Tikigaq. Kirk Oviok, otherwise known as Tigluk, along with his wife Rosemary- find themselves and their ancient village amidst rapid change and a relocation process of the town of 300 residents. Not long removed in its history when the population was threatened by an atomic blast near North America's oldest continually inhabited settlement, the locals had learned...
15) Tommysaurus rex
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents the adventures of Ely and a forty-foot Tyrannosaurus Rex who he found trapped in a cave behind his grandfather's house.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request