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Armstrong, William Howard
Sounder
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. Sounder is the family's loyal coon hunting dog, and the boy's best friend.
116 p. 1969
Children's Fiction Book ARMSTRONG
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Avi
The Good Dog
McKinley, a malamute, is torn between the domestic world of his human family and the wild world of Lupin, a wolf that is trying to recruit dogs to replenish the dwindling wolf pack.
243 p. 2001
Children's Fiction Book AVI
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Barrow, Randi G.
Saving Zasha
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.
229 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
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Bauer, Marion Dane
Runt
Runt, the smallest wolf cub in the litter, seeks to prove himself to his father King and the rest of the pack and to earn a new name.
138 p. 2002
Children's Fiction Book BAUER
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Birney, Betty G.
The World According to Humphrey
Humphrey, pet hamster at Longfellow School, learns that he has an important role to play in helping his classmates and teacher.
124 p. 2004
Children's Fiction Book BIRNEY
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Burnford, Sheila Every
The Incredible Journey
A Siamese cat, an old bull terrier, and a young labrador retriever travel together 250 miles through the Canadian wilderness to find their family.
145 p. 1961
Teen Fiction Book BURNFORD
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Cleary, Beverly
Strider
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.
179 p. 1991
Children's Fiction Book CLEARY
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Deedy, Carmen Agra
The Cheshire Cheese Cat : a Dickens of a Tale
A community of mice and a cheese-loving cat form an unlikely alliance at London's Cheshire Cheese, an inn where Charles Dickens finds inspiration and Queen Victoria makes an unexpected appearance.
228 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
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DeLaCroix, Alice.
The Best Horse Ever
Nine-year-old Abby finally gets her own horse but will this new responsibility mean she must give up everything else?
74 p. 2010
Children's Fiction Book
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DiCamillo, Kate
Because of Winn-Dixie
Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog, Winn-Dixie.
182 p. 2000
Children's Fiction Book DICAMILLO
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Farley, Walter
The Black Stallion
Young Alec Ramsay is shipwrecked on a desert island with a horse destined to play an important part in his life. Following their rescue, their adventure continues in America.
197, [12] p. 2002
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George, Jean Craighead
The Cats of Roxville Station
After she is thrown into a river by a cruel human, a young tiger-striped cat fights to survive amid feral cats and other creatures near Roxville train station, aided by Mike, a young foster boy who is not allowed to have a pet.
163 p. 2010
Children's Fiction Book
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George, Jean Craighead
Frightful's Mountain
A peregrine falcon called Frightful is growing through the first years of her life in the Catskill Mountains of New York. There she interacts with various humans, including the boy who raised her, a falconer who rescues her, and several unscrupulous poachers, as well as with many animals that are part of the area's ecological balance.
258 p. 1999
Children's Fiction Book GEORGE
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Gibbs, Stuart
Belly Up
Twelve-year-old Teddy investigates when a popular Texas zoo's star attraction--Henry the hippopotamus--is murdered.
294 p. 2010
Children's Fiction Book
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Haas, Jessie
Jigsaw Pony
Twins Kiera and Fran have never agreed on anything but when their dream comes true and their father surprises them with a pony, they must learn to work together to care for their new pet.
128 p. 2006
Children's Fiction Book HAAS
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Henry, Marguerite
King of the Wind
This is the story of Sham, a Moroccan horse, from his days as a carter's horse in France, to thoroughbred champion as the Godolphin Arabian at Newmarket, England, and the mute boy who cared for him.
172 p. 1948
Children's Fiction Book HENRY
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Henson, Heather.
Dream of Night
Told from their different points of view, twelve-year-old Shiloh, a troubled foster child, Dream of Night, an abused former racehorse, and Jess, a woman who cares for both, find healing by helping one another through their pain.
218 p. 2010
Children's Fiction Book
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Hesse, Karen.
Sable
Tate Marshall is delighted when a stray dog turns up in the yard one day, but Sable, named for her dark, silky fur, causes trouble with the neighbors and has to go.
81 p. 2010
Children's Fiction Book
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Hiaasen, Carl
Hoot
Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
292 p. 2002
Teen Fiction Book HIAASEN
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Howe, Peter
Waggit's Tale
When Waggit is abandoned by his owner as a puppy, he meets a pack of wild dogs who become his friends and teach him to survive in the city park, but when he has a chance to go home with a kind woman who wants to adopt him, he takes it.
276 p. 2008
Children's Fiction Book HOWE
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