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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Description
The Call of the Wild, by Jack London, is one of America's best-known novels. In his Reader's Companion to this new edition, Daniel Dyer provides a wealth of annotations explaining the book's many "sourdough" expressions and geographical references in order to help the modern reader see what London saw. Dyer also identifies characters in the novel - human and canine alike - whom London had known, and he spices his annotations with Northern lore and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
When Joe's father went on the dole, Lassie their valuable collie was sold to a duke, who took her to northern Scotland. Joe's devotion, Lassie's escape, and the four hundred mile trek back to the collie's family in Yorkshire make an...adventure story with the atmosphere of pre-war England."
3) White Fang
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
White Fang had come straight from the Wild, where the weak perish early and shelter is vouchsafed to none. In neither his father nor his mother was there any weakness, nor in the generations before them. A constitution of iron and the vitality of the Wild were White Fang's inheritance, and he clung to life, the whole of him and every part of him, in spirit and in flesh, with the tenacity that of old belonged to all creatures.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Call of the wild: 'Mush on!' Buck does not read the newspapers. If he had, he'd have known that for good strong dogs like himself trouble is brewing. Man has found gold and because of that Buck is kidnapped and dragged away from his sunny home to become a sledge dog in the harsh and freezing North. With strength, imagination and cunning on his side Buck must fight for survival. But will he ever trust Man again?
White Fang: The adventures in the...
6) Faded love
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Hank the Cowdog quits his job as Head of Ranch Security and travels in search of adventure and romance.
7) Howliday Inn
Author
Series
Bunnicula series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
While their human family is away, Harold the dog and Chester the cat are boarded at Chateau Bow-Wow where Chester becomes increasingly alarmed by the strange behavior of his fellow guests and the sudden disappearance of one of them.
8) Strider
Author
Series
Leigh Botts volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
In a series of diary entries, Leigh tells how he comes to terms with his parents' divorce, acquires joint custody of an abandoned dog, and joins the track team at school.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
When her blind dog slips his collar, twelve-year old Lily meets Salma Santiago, a young Hispanic girl whose migrant family are in Maine for the blueberry-picking season, and, based partly on their mutual love of dogs, the two forge a friendship while painting bee boxes for Lily's grandfather--but as the Blueberry Queen pageant approaches Lily and Salma are confronted with some of the hard truths of prejudice and migrant life.
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hank the Cowdog, Head of Ranch Security, matches wits with an escaped circus monkey.
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Hank the Cowdog almost loses his job as Head of Ranch Security when he develops a case of Eye-Crosserosis.
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
When a calf is murdered, Hank, the wiley Cowdog and Head of Ranch Security, pursues a gang of wild dogs and a clan of coyotes to find the killer.
13) Henry Huggins
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Just as Henry Huggins is complaining that nothing exciting ever happens, a friendly dog sits down beside him and looks pleadingly at his ice-cream cone. From that moment on, the two are inseparable. But when Ribsy's original owner appears, trying to reclaim his dog, Henry's faced with the possibility of losing his new best friend. Has Klickitat Street seen the last of rambunctious Ribsy?
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Hank the Cowdog gets into more and more trouble before he is able to find a happy solution to this problems.
Author
Series
Bunnicula series volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
When Bunnicula the rabbit starts acting strangely, the Monroe dogs and cat renew their suspicions that he is a vampire. It's happening again. The Monroes' kitchen is littered with the remains of vegetables, drained of all color. To Chester, it's obvious: Bunnicula, the vampire rabbit, is up to his old tricks. But Harold is more frightened for Bunnicula than of him. The poor bunny doesn't look too good. Is he sick? Or just unhappy? Or has Chester finally...
16) Angus and Sadie
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Angus and Sadie, two siblings that are of mostly border collie heritage, are adopted by a young couple and start living on a Maine farm, where they begin to learn sheep herding and come to appreciate how they are different from each another.
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
Unsupervised for the day, Hank the cowdog and his human friends, Little Alfred and Slim Chance, mind the ranch with humorous results.
19) Storm of dogs
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lucky and the dogs of the Wild Pack must fight tooth and claw to survive the storm of dogs--the terrifying battle that has been haunting Lucky's dreams"--
20) Shiloh season
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
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.
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