pets

While helping out part time in a pet shop, the Alden children discover an employee who is smuggling and selling exotic animals.

Provides information about how to feed, house, handle, and care for turtles as pets.

Explains how to choose, train, and care for a kitten, with comparisons to other animals.

Advice on choosing a cat and giving it proper care.

Photographs and text describe how to choose and care for a pet puppy. Comparisons are made with the care and behavior of wild animals in zoos and wild animal parks.

Describes some of the kinds of birds that make good pets and provides information on how to feed, house, care for, and train them.

Presents fun facts and characteristics of several types of house pets, including cats, dogs, fish, and birds.

Marvin is pleased when his teacher asks him to take care of her dog while she's away, but he soon finds that there's more pressure involved than he likes.

Frustrated because the rules for her class's Pet Day will not let her take her dog to school, Junie B. Jones considers taking a raccoon, a worm, a dead fish, and other unusual replacements.

Contains three stories in which a boy's plans for a rocket, a bus driver, and an old hamster go wrong.