service dogs

Contains simple text and color photographs illustrating the traits, training, and duties of assistance dogs. Includes a glossary of terms and sources of more information.

All his life Benji, now ten, has been sickly and he has long been targeted by the school bully, but after a seizure Benji gets a therapy dog that is not only big enough to protect him, it can also talk.

Follows the selection, raising, training, and placement with a young disabled boy of a service dog named Licorice. Includes a list of service dog schools and organizations.

Nicki's school year gets off to a rough start with trying to reconcile her feuding best friends, awaiting the birth of twin siblings, and learning to accept that Sprocket, the service dog she spent the summer raising, will soon leave for placement with someone who needs him. Includes an essay on service dogs.

Contains information about and true stories of surf dogs, their partnering with disabled humans, and the fund-raising work they are involved with.

Catie fails the vision test at Seeing Eye dog school, and is given the unique job of helper at a big hotel that puts her special talents to work.

After a busy summer training Sprocket, the service dog she has been raising, Nicki's school year gets off to a rough start as she works on reconciling her two best friends, accepting that Sprocket will soon leave for placement with someone who needs him, and awaiting the birth of the twins her mother is expecting. Includes an essay on service dogs.

When ten-year-old Nicki agrees to take over the training of Sprocket, a service dog, it is just one more thing in her overly full schedule, but much to her surprise, dog training teaches Nicki a valuable skill--how to stand up for herself. Includes photographs and essay on training service dogs.

Mourning the death of her beloved German shepherd, Sharron Luttrell decides to volunteer as a weekend puppy raiser. During the week Daisy is cared for and trained by a convict who is soft-spoken and polite. Sharron learns that Keith takes very good care of Daisy and the two begin to bond over their care of the pup. Then Sherron discovers the horrifying crime that led to Keith's incarceration and her faith in him is shattered. It takes Daisy, and her unwavering trust in Keith, to help Sharron come to terms with Keith's past and to recognize his struggle for redemption. Sharron and Keith believe they are training Daisy but in truth she is the one showing them how to fulfill their own destinies, to grow up, let go, and to experience what it really means to sit, to stay, and to love.

Captain Luis Montalvan returned home from his second tour of duty in Iraq, having survived stab wounds, a traumatic brain injury, and three broken vertebrae. But the pressures of civilian life and his injuries proved too much to bear. Physical disabilities, agoraphobia, and crippling PTSD drove him to the edge of suicide. That's when he met Tuesday, his service dog - his best friend forever.