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Author
Series
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
No breed of dog is the subject of more extreme feelings both good and bad than the Pit Bull. Man-eating monster or heroic nanny-dog: What's the real story? Are Pit Bulls the very best breed for kids? (Not always.) Is it all in how you raise them? (Not totally). Will they lick you to death? (Absolutely!) In the fully updated 2nd Edition of Pit Bulls For Dummies, Dr. Caroline Coile Dog Writer's Association of America Hall of Famer and former Pit Bull...
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Stella, a pit bull puppy, had been abandoned in a cold field in winter. Meeks wasn't ready to adopt a dog: a busy entrepreneur, wife and mother, she was recovering from stage-three breast cancer. But the pure joy of Stella's unconditional love made Meeks realize this was just what her family needed. Now Stella and Meeks advocate for pit breed awareness, explain the benefits of pet ownership, and support shelters and other organizations that save animals'...
3) Stay with me
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-olds Mack, a high school drop-out but a genius with dogs, and Céce, who hopes to use her intelligence to avoid a life like her mother's, meet and fall in love at the restaurant where they both work, but when Mack lands in prison he pushes Céce away and only a one-eared pit-bull can keep them together.
Author
Series
Lily to the rescue volume 1
Publisher
Starscape
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Lily meets a crow with a broken wing, so she and Maggie Rose take the crow home to Mom. But when the crow starts to become too tame, some unexpected problems arise. It's Lily to the rescue!
Author
Series
Lily to the rescue volume 3
Publisher
Starscape
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
On a camping trip with Maggie Rose's dad, Lily gets sprayed by a skunk. But the skunk has no stink! That means it can't defend itself against big animals. Can Lily find a way to help? It's Lily to the rescue!
Author
Series
Lily to the rescue volume 4
Publisher
Starscape, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Lily lives with her girl, Maggie Rose. Once a stray, Lily was rescued by the kind people at the animal shelter run by Maggie Rose's mom. Now she has a very important purpose: to rescue other animals in trouble. A gaggle of orphaned baby geese think Lily is their mother. But they need to learn how to fly. Can Lily find a way to teach them? It's Lily to the rescue!"--Amazon.
Author
Series
Lily to the rescue volume 5
Publisher
Starscape
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Lily lives with her girl, Maggie Rose. Once a stray, Lily was rescued by the kind people at the animal shelter run by Maggie Rose's mom. Now she has a very important purpose: to rescue other animals in trouble. When a lost little Amur leopard is brought to the zoo and needs a friend, it's Lily to the rescue!" -- Provided by publisher.
9) Rescue you
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Rehabilitating pitbulls into war-veteran companions, Constance and Sunny are targeted by a vindictive neighbor before making unexpected self-discoveries and bonding with a group of ex-military friends at a local gym, where the owner is battling PTSD.
Author
Series
Lily to the rescue volume .2
Publisher
Starscape, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Maggie Rose and Lily meet two little piggies who are lost at a rest stop and need their mother. But no one knows where they came from. How will they ever find the piglets' mom? It's Lily to the rescue!
Author
Publisher
Gotham Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Today, Wallace is a champion; but in the summer of 2005, he was living in a shelter, a refugee from a suspicious pit-bull breeding operation. Then Andrew "Roo" Yori entered the picture. A scientist and shelter volunteer, Roo could immediately see that Wallace was something special. When Roo learned that Wallace was about to be put down, he and his wife frantically fought to keep Wallace alive until they could adopt him, even though they already had...
Author
Series
Lily to the rescue volume 6
Publisher
Starscape
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Rescued shelter dog Lily offers assistance when a baby donkey tries to make friends with a neighboring herd of older donkeys, who reject the foal for mysterious reasons"--
13) One good dog
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After Adam March loses his job, his wife, and the life he has worked so hard to achieve, he must fulfill a community-service obligation at a soup kitchen, where he meets Chance, a pit bull bred for fighting who ends up being Adam's best shot at redemption.
14) Lila and Hadley
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Hadley is an angry girl: angry at her mother for embezzling money, angry at her estranged older sister, Beth, whom she has to live with while her mother is in jail, angry at having to move to Kentucky away from her friends, and angry at the world because she has retinitis pigmentosa and is slowly going blind; but then she meets Lila, a rescued pit bull who has not responded to anyone else--so if Hadley can train Lila, maybe the dog can get adopted...
16) Two good dogs
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Single mom Skye Mitchell has sunk her last dime into a dream, owning the venerable, if run-down LakeView Hotel in the Berkshire Hills. It’s here where she believes she’ll give her fourteen-year-old daughter Cody a better life. But being an innkeeper is more challenging than she imagined, and Cody still manages to fall in with the wrong crowd. In addition, Cody is keeping an earth-shattering secret that she’s terrified to reveal. The once loving,...
17) Poppy
Author
Series
American dog volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
With the help of a very special pit bull puppy, twelve-year-old Hannah adjusts to moving from Michigan to California and makes friends, despite the birthmark that makes her self-conscious.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Aila Cordeiro absolutely cannot take on an abandoned pit bull. So why is she suddenly filling food bowls for the wounded stray and opening her seaside home to him? Maybe it's the sadness in the pup's eyes, a sorrow that mirrors her own. But caring for another is not on Aila's agenda anymore. As the sole owner of the general store in a Cape Cod tourist town, she has enough on her hands. Of course, life is what happens while you're making other plans....
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