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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Buck, a dog abducted from his home and sold as a sled dog. Struggling to survive in the merciless world of the Klondike gold fields, Buck eventually gains his freedom and becomes the leader of a wolf pack.
2) Old Yeller
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In the rugged landscape of early frontier Texas, fourteen-year-old Travis is faced with taking over his family's farm and making a painful, important decision.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Billy, Old Dan and Little Ann -- a Boy and His Two Dogs ... A loving threesome, they ranged the dark hills and river bottoms of Cherokee country. Old Dan had the brawn, Little Ann had the brains -- and Billy had the will to train them to be the finest hunting team in the valley. Glory and victory were coming to them, but sadness waited too. And close by was the strange and wonderful power that's only found ... An exciting tale of love and adventure...
4) Dog
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Text and photographs highlight the evolutionary history of dogs, their domestication, anatomy, behavior, and breeds, and offer guidance on dog care and training.
8) Shiloh
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
9) Draw 50 dogs
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Language
English
Description
Step-by-step instructions show young artists how to draw dogs from the hound, working, toy, sporting, and nonsporting breeds, including spaniels, greyhounds, collies, and poodles
10) White Fang
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Up in the frozen north, life is harsh and dangerous. But this is where White Fang, the wolf-dog, feels at home--in the wild. When White Fang lives among man-animals, he must learn to fend for himself. And when he finds himself with a man who is kind to him, he must learn to love.
11) Dogs
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Provides a basic introduction to the physical characteristics and behavior of dogs.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Duped into thinking the world is coming to an end, Hank the Cowdog winds up in town for some more adventures including getting in and out of a case of "soap hydrophobia."
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 19
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Having used their magic tree house to travel to India, where they must get a gift to help free the dog Teddy from a spell, Jack and Annie have adventures involving a tiger and other endangered jungle animals.
16) Sounder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A young Negro boy learns the pain of humiliation and anger when his father is given an unjust jail sentence for stealing a ham from a white man. Learning to read and to discover that things do not die but become part of other things brings the youngster new hope.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Recounts the life of Balto, the sled dog who saved Nome, Alaska in 1925 from a diphtheria epidemic by delivering medicine through a raging snowstorm. A compelling account, told in easy-to-read format, of a sled dog who led his team over 53 miles of Alaska wilderness to deliver medicine during an outbreak of diptheria in 1925.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Do you want to know what dogs are thinking? What they're feeling? Now you finally can. The answers will surprise and delight young readers as scientist and dog-owner Alexandra Horowitz explains how dogs perceive their daily worlds, each other, and that other quirky animal, the human."--
20) Beagles
Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke Pub
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A brief introduction to the physical characteristics, temperament, uses, and breeding history of the beagle.