Provides guidance on deciding whether a guinea pig is the right pet, selecting one, and caring for one, covering such topics as cages, feeding, handling, health, and aging.
The author presents a fact-based novel about his daughter, Julie, and her compulsion to take in any and all unfortunate pets including a sick cat, hamster, a big ugly fish, a hermit crab, and the classroom rabbit.
After being sold to an unscrupulous pet store owner, a young mouse lives with several owners and has many adventures, before ending up with an appreciative family.
Sly the Sleuth, also known as Sylvia, solves three mysteries for her friends and neighbors, all involving pets, through her detective agency, Sleuth for Hire.
During the summer that she turns nine, Mary Margaret tries very hard to persuade her parents to let her have a pet, makes a new neighbor friend and helps her brother keep an old one, and looks forward to the new baby's arrival because then her mother will be less "crabby.".
Nigel the cat and Julia the dog think they will have no use for the new baby in their house, but after awhile they realize that they have come to love her.
