Boisterous third-grader Fran has trouble controlling herself, but learning how to train her gigantic Newfoundland puppy helps her gain enough self-control to win the part of princess in the class play. Includes instructions on puppy training.
A number of changes are taking place in fifth-grader Aaron's life. business at the family pet shop is declining, forcing his parents to consider selling the store; luxury condos are going up on the land that houses a community garden, displacing the homeless woman who lives there; and Aaron gets to know his seemingly perfect clasmate Sharon when she begins to tutor him in math.
Jack, the new arrival at Barkley's School for Dogs, gets off to a rough start when he chews the bully Doberman's toy, but when someone else needs some protection, Jack soon learns that popularity is not quite as important as true friendship.
Humiliated after being dumped by her boyfriend--on her birthday--and the popular crowd at the end of her junior year in high school, Katie endures more embarrassing moments while taking a summer class at the University of Texas in Austin and living away from home in an apartment with an overly hip roommate and a psychotic dog.
When Collin Meeks and the mischievous Catreece happen upon an escaped computer-game rabbit named Riggi, they find themselves working for the entrepreneurial bunny's Internet company.
Asks readers to determine the plotline in a story with more than twenty possible endings in which a young girl learns lessons about love and loyalty when she is faced with decisions involving a puppy in danger.
When they take their dog, Watch, for obedience training, the Alden children discover that some of the dogs in the class have vanished and decide to try to solve the mystery of their disappearance.
Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and with the help of the devoted dog Sounder.
