pets

Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer.

In absence of their father, a brother and sister adopt four dogs and a cat in an attempt to save their family.

Martha the dog recounts her early days as a canine criminal after having been adopted by a thief and her partner before being captured by the police and brought to a shelter, where she ultimately met Helen.

During her solitary convalescence from a crippling accident, twelve-year-old Charley finds a wild dog, and the arduous process of training him leads her to explore her feelings about her mother's death two years earlier.

Abby, a pet-sitter, is dismayed when she is asked to care for her annoying classmate Dirk's ant farm over the weekend, but her little sister Tess helps her see that Dirk and his ants are not so bad.

Lobo, a Chihuahua from New York City who feels he is truly a wolf in an undersized body, goes to Yellowstone National Park with his mistress and dreams of running wild with his wolf brothers.

Relates the feats of Barry, the Saint Bernard dog whose name, to this day, honors the best dog at the Saint Bernard Monastery.

When her grandmother decides to ditch assisted living and start a boarding house, fourteen-year-old Amanda Jane Keeling, or Rebel, signs on for the work crew, where she just happens to meet a teenaged boy taller than she is and to embroil them both in a mystery.

After learning about maps in school, Lisa maps all the favorite places of her dog Penny.

When Mudge gets sick unexpectedly, Henry does all he can to make him feel better.