pets

The basics of gerbil ownership, from selecting the right equipment to providing the best feeding, housing, and health care, with coverage about breeding gerbils and raising the young.

Provides information about the history, physical characteristics, choosing, and care of all kinds of parrots.

Describes the characteristics, habits, habitat, and history of gerbils and hamsters and how to raise them as pets.

Small for his age but artistically talented, twelve-year-old Jeremy Thatcher unknowingly buys a dragon's egg.

This book tells about finding the right pet, including making sure your pet has everything it needs and bringing your pet home.

Lizzie discovers a Shih Tzu named Bandit abandoned at highway restaurant and agrees to foster him and she so finds out that the puppy needs an operation and was abandoned because the owner couldn't pay for it.

Presents a guide to keeping hermit crabs as pets, explaining what hermit crabs are, offering advice on choosing a hermit crab, and discussing equipment, daily care, handling, and health problems.

Bradley, Brian, Nate, and Lucy enter their pets in the Fourth of July costume competition, but just as they complete making Polly the pony into Thomas Jefferson, and Pal the dog into the Declaration of Independence, the animals run away and the children must find them before it is too late to win the prize.

After his pet rabbit dies, Josh feels sad and does not want to own another pet until an elderly neighbor's cat goes missing.

Describes the silly and simple things a pet rhinoceros can and cannot do.