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Can I be your dog? volume 1
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A dog looking for a home sends letters to prospective owners on Butternut Street, with surprising results.
2) I am a wolf
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"A dog who insists she is a wolf finds the perfect home with a young girl who sees past her prickly personality"--
4) Molly
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Puppy place. Main series volume 31
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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?
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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,...
6) I want a dog
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"A girl seeks her perfect pet at an unusual animal shelter"--
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Critter club volume 9
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Celebrate the Holidays - YOUTH
OBD Christmas Chapter/ Nonfiction Books - Youth
OBD Ready for Chapter Books - YOUTH
OBD Christmas Chapter/ Nonfiction Books - Youth
OBD Ready for Chapter Books - YOUTH
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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.
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Lulu (Hilary McKay) volume 6
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"Seven-year-old Lulu adopts a hamster and must keep it a secret from her grandmother when she and her cousin Mellie spend the night"--
9) Dear stray
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"A little girl adopts the prickliest stray kitten at the shelter because sometimes she feels prickly, too"--
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"Mutual Rescue 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."--
11) The grumpy pets
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"Billy is a grumpy boy who's not like the other kids. His mother takes him and his sister, Sara, to the animal shelter one Saturday in hope of cheering him up. But the pets he sees are too happy for his taste. Then he finds the grumpy pets..."--
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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.
13) Lost cat
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Slipper the cat is mistakenly left behind in the commotion when the lady she has always lived with moves in with her daughter's family, so Slipper sets out to find someone new to adopt.
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Sometimes flying means keeping your feet on the ground... Born in a dismal room in a pet store, Alastair the African grey parrot dreams of escape to bluer skies. He'd like nothing more than to fly away to a palm tree with his beloved sister, Aggie. But when Aggie is purchased by twelve-year-old Fritz, and Alastair is adopted by elderly dance-enthusiast and pie-baker Albertina Plopky, the future looks ready to crash-land. In-between anxiously plucking...
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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 dysfunctional...
17) Lola gets a cat
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Lola books (Anna McQuinn) volume 5
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More than anything Lola would like a cat, but first she must learn how to care for it.
18) Ruckus
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"In this illustrated early chapter book, a young boy learns to take care of his newly adopted dog while coping with his parents' separation."--
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Madeline Finn volume 2
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After Madeline Finn adopts a puppy, she learns about her local animal shelter and organizes donations and volunteers to improve the lives of the animals there --
20) Merlin
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Shelter pet squad volume 2
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When second-grader Suzannah arrives to volunteer at the animal shelter she finds that the newest arrival is Merlin, a mischievous ferret with a talent for hiding and stealing shiny things, so the Shelter Pet Squad needs to find a home that is a perfect match for a ferret.