Nine-year-old Julia Gillian learns a lot about facing fear as she and her St. Bernard, Bigfoot, take long walks through their Minneapolis neighborhood one hot summer, and she seeks the courage to finish a book that could have an unhappy ending.
Offers children facts and tips to help them care for their pet turtle, with information about the breed, their behavior, habitat, nutrition and exercise needs, and care.
Offers children facts and tips to help them care for their pet ferret, with information about the breed, their behavior, habitat, nutrition and exercise needs, and care.
A cat, two guinea pigs, and a colony of brave sewer rats band together in order to save Freddy, a golden hamster, from an evil scientist who's discovered that Freddy can read and write, and plans to hamster-nap him in order to dissect his brain.
A phonics comic in which Brad Benson, small, unlucky, and often the target of bullies, gets a little help from his dog Duke who is accidently transformed into Fang by a formula invented by a mad veterinarian.
Kizzie Ann Stamps is nervous about starting at a new school that was just integrated, and wonders if she and her dog Shag will be allowed to compete in a herding competition because she is African-American.
Fifth grader Amy finds her life growing complicated when she meets and tries to hide an intelligent, talking dog who has escaped from a university lab.