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Develop a loving relationship with your adopted pet
Your fun and easy guide to the challenges and rewards of adopting a pet
Thinking about adopting or rescuing an animal? This friendly guide gives you a no-nonsense introduction to the process and helps you select the right companion for you and your family. You'll see how to handle everything from feeding, health care, and housetraining to obedience, behavior
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""No Dog Should Die Alone" was the attention-grabbing - and heart-stirring - headline of journalist Laura T. Coffey's TODAY show website story about photographer Lori Fusaro's work with senior shelter pets. While generally calm, easy, and already house-trained, these animals often represent the highest-risk population at shelters. With gorgeous, joyful photographs and sweet, funny, true tales of "old dogs learning new tricks," Coffey and Fusaro show...
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Lola books (Anna McQuinn) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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More than anything Lola would like a cat, but first she must learn how to care for it.
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English
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"Did you know that more than six million pets arrive annually at community animal shelters in the United States? Of that number over three million are dogs. But of course it's not just dogs and puppies that need homes. Shelters take in cats, kittens, birds, reptiles, and even domestic farm animals. And there are many reasons why these animals need to go to shelters. Some of the animals are strays and some are lost; some are rescued from natural disasters...
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Critter club volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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As Christmas nears, Amy and her friends in The Critter Club try to find a home for two adorable guinea pigs. Book #9.
As Christmas nears, Amy and her friends in the Critter Club try to find a home for two adorable guinea pigs.
8) Pretty kitty
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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In this charming counting book, a lonely old man discovers one kitty on his front step. But he does not want a kitty cat - scat! As the number of kitties grows, will the man find room in his heart-and home-for his new feline friends? A counting picture book in rhyme about a lonely old man whose heart is slowly melted by an ever-growing number of kitties hoping to find a home.
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Magical Animal Adoption Agency volume 3
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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"Clover and Oliver must work together to save the animals at the Magical Animal Adoption Agency when the creatures start losing their magic"--
10) Lilo & Stitch
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English
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An evil creator has created a little creature by genetic experimentation. The creator and creature are sent to prison. The creature escapes and heads for Earth where he tries to impersonate a dog. Bent on self preservation, he plans to use a human shield to protect him from the aliens sent to recapture him. Earth girl, Lilo, adopts the 'dog, ' gives him the name Stitch, and actually developes an emotional attachment to the little creature. Lilo's...
11) I found a kitty!
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Series
Can I be your dog? volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When Arfy finds a homeless kitten, he writes letters to prospective owners, hoping to find the perfect home for his new friend.
12) Molly
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The puppy place. Main series volume 31
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Charles and Lizzie Peterson love puppies. Their family fosters these young dogs, giving them love and proper care, until they can find the perfect forever home. When Charles offers to foster Molly he thinks that she is a very sweet puppy. But then Charles finds out that she is a Rottweiler. He's never been scared of a foster dog before. Can he overcome his fear and find this gentle pup a home?
13) Dogosaurus Rex
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Ben selects from the shelter a most unusual "dog" that wreaks havoc in town until she has a chance to prove her worth.
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Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Long time residents of Mrs. Barrett's adoption shelter, Felipe (a grumpy cat) and Claudette (a hyperactive dog) seem like they will never find a forever home, and Felipe is convinced that it is all Claudette's fault--but when the dog is finally adopted, Felipe is so depressed that he hides on adoption day, and it turns out that Claudette also misses her friend.
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Scholastic
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Olivia is new in town, and she can't wait to make new friends. So she volunteers to help out at the pet adoption booth at the Heartlake City World Petacular. But when one of the puppies escapes, it destroys all the hard work that Andrea, Emma, Mia, and Stephanie have put into the Petacular! So much for making friends . . . in just a few minutes, Olivia's made four brand-new enemies. There's only one way to repair the damage - teamwork! Can Olivia,...
16) Stinker
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Stinker the dog, who often "makes little smells," finds a new home and a new name after a lonely, elderly man adopts him.
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Profiles the transformational impact that shelter pets have on humans, exploring the emotional, physical, and spiritual gifts that rescued animals provide. It explores through anecdote, observation, and scientific research, the complexity and depth of the role that pets play in our lives. Every story in the book brings an unrecognized benefit of adopting homeless animals to the forefront of the rescue conversation."--
20) My first pet
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Chelsea and her friends go to the pet shelter to adopt a pet.