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A comprehensive dog training and puppy training program that offers the added benefit of one-on-one online advice from the author
Do you consider your dog part of the family? Most dog guardians do. But just like children, dogs need structure. Structure to show him that he shouldn't jump on every person who enters your house, or urinate indoors, or drag you down the road when you walk him. In Imagine Life with a Well-Behaved Dog, Julie Bjelland offers...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
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In 2002, a tiny, golden puppy was born without one of her front legs. Her other front leg was badly deformed, leaving her unable to walk. The Stringfellow family adopted the puppy and named her Faith. However, they worried that little Faith might never be able to walk on her own. As Faith got older and stronger, the Stringfellows helped her to balance on her hind legs. Eventually, they used peanut butter to coax her to walk all by herself on only...
3) Dusty
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Rescue dogs volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
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"When Dusty, starving and sick, is picked up on the side of the highway after losing his pack, he's lucky to be alive. The tiny Chihuahua is small enough to fit in two hands and needs special care to be nursed back to health before he can be adopted out to a forever family. Dusty recovers at the Sterling Center, where they train Search and Rescue dogs. Though the Sterlings don't think a dog as small as Dusty can do the tireless work of a SAR dog,...
5) Ember
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Rescue dogs volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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After Ember is saved from a house fire, she is brought to the Sterling family, who run a ranch that trains rescue dogs.
6) Edward
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Puppy place volume 49
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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This puppy is quite a handful. He doesn't listen, he's obsessed with his toy sheep, and he can't ride in the car without...um...getting sick. Has Lizzie met her match, or will she be able to train this pugnacious pug?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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The humorous story of Mutt, a dog of character and personality, and his boy. Farley Mowat's best loved book tells the splendidly entertaining story of his boyhood on the Canadian prairies. Mutt's pedigree was uncertain, but his madness was indisputable. He climbed tress and ladders, rode passenger in an open car wearing goggles and displaying hunting skills that bordered on sheer genius. He was a marvelous dog, worthy of an unusual boy growing...
10) Gem
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Rescue dogs volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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"Gem is a golden retriever puppy who loves to dig. She gets adopted out to a handful of would-be forever families, but no matter how much she wants to please her new people, she can't keep herself from digging up the roses...and the lawn...and the couch cushions...anything that's remotely diggable. Over and over she is returned to the shelter. The folks at the Sterling Center recognize Gem's flaw as an asset. A dog this driven could really shine in...
11) Lucky
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
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Welcome to the Puppy Place--where every puppy finds a home!
Charles and his shy new friend David are camping out in the backyard when a big storm blows in. They make a dash for the house-but not before Charles sees a pair of eyes glowing in the night. Was that a puppy out there, all alone in the storm? The next day, Charles and David find the stray, injured mixed-breed puppy, win his trust, and get him to the vet. He's very sick, and the vet is not...
13) Dog Heaven
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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In Newbery Medalist Cynthia Rylant's classic bestseller, the author comforts readers young and old who have lost a dog. Recommended highly by pet lovers around the world, Dog Heaven not only comforts but also brings a tear to anyone who is devoted to a pet. From expansive fields where dogs can run and run to delicious biscuits no dog can resist, Rylant paints a warm and affectionate picture of the ideal place God would, of course, create for man's...
14) The Endless Lake
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Survivors volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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"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"--
16) Storm of dogs
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Survivors volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"Lucky and the dogs of the Wild Pack must fight tooth and claw to survive the storm of dogs--the terrifying battle that has been haunting Lucky's dreams"--
17) Jet
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Rescue dogs volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Left tied in the backyard when his owners move away, a lonely and hungry border collie puppy is rescued by a home inspector and taken to the Sterling Center, where his fear of leashes complicates his training as a rescue dog in the wake of a plane crash and snowstorm.
20) Miki
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Charles and his family foster Miki, a Bichon Frise puppy whose former owner taught her to dance.
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