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1) Old Yeller
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Series
Old Yeller volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
A story of a boy and his dog in the Texas hill country ranks high in the annals of boy and dogdom. Gipson, in earlier books, has evinced an evocative quality which recaptures for the reader the sounds, the smells, the sights of the region he knows and loves, recaptures too the emotional quality, the moods of his central figure. This was particularly true in Hound-Dog Man, which for some readers was marred by the vernacular. In Old Yeller the story...
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Series
Time dogs volume 03
Language
English
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Description
In this third adventure, the Time Dogs--Baxter, Trevor, Newton, Maia, and Titch--find themselves transported back to the year 1800 to the Swiss Alps. There they meet Barry, a famous Great Saint Bernard rescue dog who saved many lives during his service in the mountain rescue program. Together, the Time Dogs and Barry help rescue a boy trapped in a storm.
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...
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Series
Time dogs volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a pack of senior dogs find themselves transported back in time--and turned into puppies!--they must make their way back home, helping real-life historical dogs along the way. In this first adventure, meet Baxter, Trevor, Newton, Titch, and Maia--the time dogs!--as they find themselves transported through time and space to 1925 Alaska. There, deep in the wilderness, the puppies must help Balto in his famous sled race to deliver medicine during...
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Series
Harvey stories volume 1
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
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Description
"A young boy volunteering at a retirement home finds a stray dog and notices that it revives decades-old memories for a bitter resident. The boy bonds with the resident as he listens to stories about growing up in Saskatchewan during the Great Depression. Thanks to his new friend and his canine companion, the elderly man is able to pass away peacefully, immersed in fond memories of his youth"--
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Series
Dogs of World War II volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In September 1944 eleven-year-old Billie lives with her great aunt, Doff, eagerly waiting for her older brother Leo to return from boot camp, and desperate to find the father that left when she was little; but Leo brings a friend with him, a Navajo named Denny, and the injured dog they have rescued and named Bear--and when the two young men go off to war Bear becomes the thread that ties them all together, and helps Billie to find a true friend.
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Series
Time dogs volume 02
Language
English
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Description
Follow the dogs Baxter, Trevor, Newton, Maia and Titch as they are transported back in time to 1805 Missouri, now as puppies, and must help Seaman and his traveling companions--the explorers Lewis and Clark.
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Series
G.I. dogs volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Born in Shanghai, China in 1936, Judy is an English pointer who finds her place on a English gunboat patrolling the Yangtze River, battling pirates, contending with the Japanese occupiers, and protecting her human shipmates--until they all end up in a Japanese prison camp in Sumatra at the beginning of World War II, where every day is a struggle to survive.
9) Arch of bone
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Lexile measure
920L
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English
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Description
Fourteen-year-old Josiah dreams of joining the crew of whaling ship, like his father and grandfather. A sailor brings news that his father has died, and that his crew was doomed by the mad Captain Ahab and the white whale, Moby Dick. Josiah and his loyal dog, Zeke, set sail to find out the truth of his father's death.
10) The wizard's dog
Author
Series
The wizard's dog volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
When his master and best friend, Merlin, is kidnapped, there is nothing Nosewise the dog will not do to get Merlin back, even if it means facing the strange Fae people and their magic-eating worms, or tangling with the mysterious Sword in the Stone.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The lives of two sets of best friends, Kate and Ruby in England and Erik and Hans in Germany, as well as a stray dog in London are brought together in unexpected ways during World War II"--Title verso page.
Author
Series
Soldier dogs volume 5
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Boss the Alaskan Husky is parachuting into the middle of a snowstorm. As an army dog, it's her job to bring supplies to Allied troops during the Battle of the Bulge. But when she finds a wounded sled dog and two lost kids, she knows she has to help them, too. As the blizzard bears down, can Boss complete her mission, escape the Nazis, and get the kids out of the storm alive?
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Chernobyl, 1986. Without humans, how will dogs survive? As humans fled the nuclear disaster, they were forced to leave their pets behind. Without people, nature began to return to the woods surrounding the power plant--lynx, bear, and wolves. But the overgrown forest is no place for dogs. Can Zoya, and her pups Misha and Luka, learn to survive in the deadlands? And will Zoya ever find her way home to her beloved owner?"--
Author
Series
Dog chronicles volume 4
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
"Leo is a hardened old sea dog who knows not to trust anyone but himself after four ocean voyages. But when he sets sail with Magellan on a journey to find a westward route to the Spice Islands, he develops new friendships as they experience hunger and thirst, storms and doldrums, and mutinies and hostile, violent encounters. Will they ever find safe passage?"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
"1242. On a dark night, travelers from across France cross paths at an inn and begin to tell stories of three children. Their adventures take them on a chase through France: they are taken captive by knights, sit alongside a king, and save the land from a farting dragon. On the run to escape prejudice and persecution and save precious and holy texts from being burned, their quest drives them forward to a final showdown at Mont Saint-Michel, where...
17) Ivy takes care
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brokenhearted when her best friend departs for the summer, Ivy spends her own summer caring for animals in the mid-century Southwest, sharing her season of discovery with a stubborn pony, a mischievous puppy, and a scarred racehorse.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"It's the winter of 1924 and a diptheria outbreak is threatening the population of Nome, Alaska. The only way to stop the deadly illness from causing a full blown epidemic is to immediately deliver one million units of the diptheria antitoxin to the affected communities --a task that seems impossible given that the only way to reach any place in Alaska at this time of year is by dog sled. The stakes are high, and the snow is piling higher. Will the...
19) Saving Zasha
Author
Series
Zasha volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1945 Russia, those who own German shepherds are considered traitors, but thirteen-year-old Mikhail and his family are determined to keep the dog a dying man brought them, while his classmate Katia strives to learn his secret.
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Series
Roman mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
In Rome in the year 79 A.D., a group of children from very different backgrounds work together to discover who beheaded a pet dog -- and why.
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