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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
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With a wag and a "woof," this book invites readers to meet the golden retriever. Readers will examine the history, physical attributes, development, and behavior of the golden retriever breed. Coat, color, size, and care instructions are also discussed. Full-color photos allow readers to see these loyal hunting dogs in a variety of situations. An index and glossary are also included. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing Company....
Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
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Description
This time the mysterious box transports the golden retriever Ranger back to the shipyards of Belfast in 1912, where a ship is being prepared for her maiden voyage, and when he saves young Patrick Murphy from being crushed by falling boards, Ranger expects to be transported home; when he is not, he knows that somehow his job is not finished--but then, Ranger has never heard of the Titanic, and knows nothing of the fate that awaits Patrick, and all...
43) Boomer's Big Day
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Moving day proves confusing for Boomer, a golden retriever, until he at last explores his new home and finds his own favorite and familiar things.
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English
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2008-1224 Why do dogs speak so profoundly to our inner lives? When poet Doty decides to adopt a dog as a companion for his dying partner, he finds himself bringing home Beau, a large golden retriever, malnourished and in need of loving care. Beau joins Arden, the black retriever, to complete their family. As Beau bounds back into life, the two dogs become Doty's intimate companions, his solace, and eventually the very life force that keeps him from...
46) Tiger pups
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of how Isabella, a golden retriever owned by the couple who run the Safari Zoological Park in Caney, Kansas, adopted three white tiger cubs--Nasira, Anjika, and Sidani--as her own, creating an unusual, interspecies family.
47) Gem
Author
Series
Rescue dogs volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
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"Gem is a golden retriever puppy who loves to dig. She gets adopted out to a handful of would-be forever families, but no matter how much she wants to please her new people, she can't keep herself from digging up the roses...and the lawn...and the couch cushions...anything that's remotely diggable. Over and over she is returned to the shelter, unwanted and heartbroken. the folks at the Sterling Center recognize Gem's flaw as an asset. A dog this driven...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
This book introduces readers to the golden retriever. Engaging, easy-to-read text invites students to examine the history, physical attributes, development, and behavior of the breed. Coat, color, size, and care are also discussed. Full-color photos show these loving hunting dogs in a variety of situations. An index and glossary are also included.
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English
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When mystery writer David Rosenfelt and his family moved from California to Maine, he thought he had prepared for everything. They had mapped the route, brought three GPSs for backup, refrigerators full of food, and volunteers for help. But traveling in three RVs with twenty-five dogs turned out to be a bigger ordeal than he anticipated. Rosenfelt recounts the adventure with humor and warmth and tells how he and his wife became passionate foster parents...
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English
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Cormac is a novel based on real events, and tells the tale of a Golden Retriever, who ran away from his Alabama home while the owner was on a book tour in San Francisco. Cormac had always been afraid of storms, they made him cower and tremble. Or, in this case, run, run like the shrieking wind that blew the rain across the land. Maybe if Cormac s master had not been away from home, and his food and water poured for him by a stranger s hand, things...
53) Golden
Author
Series
Golden wolf volume 01
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The Little Mermaid meets Loki in this dark, twisted retelling that's anything but a Fairy Tale. In this world, foes look like friends, the heroes are deliciously wicked, and you'll never see the end coming. Ten years ago, I 'died', and it was the best thing that ever happened to me. I should have known it wouldn't last. Once my family thought I was dead I was finally free to live. Until the day my brother walks into my tiny bookshop. No one leaves...
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English
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"An instructive and marvelously entertaining chronicle of a puppy's first year, by the managing editor of The New York Times One sparkling summer day, Jill Abramson brought home a nine-week-old golden retriever named Scout. Over the following year, as she and her husband raised their adorable new puppy, Abramson wrote a hugely popular column for The New York Times's website about the joys and challenges of training this rambunctious addition to their...
55) Lily
Author
Series
The puppy place. Main series volume 61
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
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Description
The Petersons are headed to the beach! On their vacation at the Fair Harbor Inn, Charles meets Lily, an untrained English cream golden retriever puppy. Charles will need all the help he can get with this rambunctious pup. Will he be able to find her a perfect permanent new home?
Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
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Description
Ranger, the time-traveling golden retriever, has landed in Viking age Iceland, where he meets a girl named Helga, who seems perfectly able to take care of herself--until an erupting volcano and an early arriving baby forces Ranger and Helga to journey through the ash and smoke to find her father and bring him home.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The story of a family and town's effort to save a beloved and heroic dog named Semper Fi. Their lives tumble along, as most families do, until they must face the grave diagnosis of their Golden Retriever, Semper Fi. The family cannot afford the expensive surgery the dog needs. The children jump into action with a plan, spear headed by the fifteen year old daughter. They plan a community yard sale, donating all of their most prized possessions. Before...
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English
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After the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, Susannah Charleson was so impressed by the newspaper photo of an exhausted handler and his search-and-rescue dog that she decided to train a dog of her own. A dog lover and pilot with search experience herself, Charleson got Puzzle, a strong, bright Golden Retriever, who from the start, exhibited a unique aptitude for search-and-rescue work. But the puppy's willfulness challenged even Susannah, who had raised...
60) Be my ghost
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English
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"Maureen Doherty and her golden retriever Finn have taken possession of a charming old inn--only to discover that it's already possessed by tenants whose lease on life already ran out...Maureen's career as a sportswear buyer hits a snag just before Halloween, when the department store declares bankruptcy. Meanwhile, Finn's lost his way as a guide dog after flunking his test for being too friendly and easily distracted. Sadly, only one of them can...
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