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1) Old Yeller
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the late 1860's in the Texas hill country, a big yellow dog and a fourteen year-old boy form a close, loving relationship.
2) Lad, a dog
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Recounts the heroic and adventurous life of a thoroughbred collie that was particularly devoted to his owners.
Author
Series
Henry Huggins volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When Henry adopts Ribsy, a dog of no particular breed, humorous adventures follow.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Contains the full and unabridged text of Jack London's The call of the wild novel, set in the Klondike gold Rush of Alaska and the Yukon Territory, accompanied by an orientation to the story, a glossary of over 150 words, a location appendix, a character appendix, and a brief biography of London himself.
5) Ice dogs
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In this survival story set in Alaska, fourteen-year-old Vicky and her dog sled team find an injured sledder in the wilderness.
6) Brian's hunt
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Two years after he survived a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness, a sixteen-year-old returns to the wild where he feels he belongs. In a temporary camp on the way to visit his friends, Brian Robeson finds a dog, wounded and whimpering. The dog is badly hurt, and as Brian cares for it, he worries about his friends. His instincts tell him to head north, quickly. With his new companion at his side, and with a terrible, growing sense of unease, he...
Author
Series
Survivors volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lucky and his Pack must learn to survive in their new home, at the edge of a strange lake that seems to go on forever"--
Author
Series
Survivors volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lucky and the rest of his Pack encounter another group of dogs that has survived the Big Growl--and these new dogs may be their most dangerous enemies yet"--
10) White Fang
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of a magnificent wolf-dog, born in the Wild, who struggles to survive in the harsh Yukon and is transformed into an animal capable of great love.
12) Strider
Author
Series
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Nearing the end of his life, Enzo, a dog with a philosopher's soul, tries to bring together the family, pulled apart by a three year custody battle between daughter Zoe's maternal grandparents and her father Denny, a race car driver.
14) Hotel for dogs
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Andi, unable to adopt an adorable stray dog because of her aunt's allergies, enlists her brother Bruce in a plan to care for the dog and its puppies in an abandoned house down the street, but when the siblings give in the urge to take in more canine guests, the secret becomes too large to keep.
15) My new boy
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Illus. in full color. "Designed for children who are just beginning to read independently, this humorous story has very large print, simple vocabulary, and lively, amusing illustrations. Should be appealing, whether used for reading alone or reading aloud."—Bulletin, Center for Children's Books.
17) Brave like that
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Cyrus knows he is not cut out to be a football hero or fireman like his adopted father, but it takes a skittish stray dog to teach him that he, too, can be brave.