Three little girls, Flicka, Ricka, and Dicka, find a wet dog on their doorstep and hope they will be able to keep him, but when their mother finds the dog's owners, the girls must prepare themselves to give up their new pet.
Pondering the fact that his dog Basil plays while he works, a boy decides that if they work together Basil could go on to become a teacher, astronaut, or president.
Gus Dempsey is a newly trained dog handler in the United States Marine Corps, and when he is deployed to Afghanistan he is paired with Loki, a bomb-sniffing black Labrador with a mischievous streak.
Twelve-year-old Katie is dreading the boring summer ahead until she realizes the mysterious neighbor who hired her to catsit is one of the city's greatest supervillains.
"Hoping to adopt a pet to find a sense of belonging in her busy family, Maggie is disappointed to discover she is severely allergic to anything with fur and tries to find a pet to love anyway"--OCLC.
