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Madeline Finn volume 3
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Madeline Finn and Star are off to Walker Oaks, a retirement community where Star will take his tests to become a therapy dog. Accompanied by Mom, Mrs. Dimple, and Bonnie, she and Star make their way through a variety of challenges and meet several new friends. But Madeline Finn can't stop thinking about an elderly man in a wheelchair who never smiles. Is there something she and Star can do to help?"--Provided by publisher.
2) Only yours
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Montana Hendrix has found her calling working with therapy dogs. With a career she loves in a hometown she adores, she's ready to look for her own happily ever after. Could one of her dogs help her find Mr. Right. . . or maybe Dr. Right? Scarred since childhood, Simon Bradley avoids emotional entanglement by moving from place to place to heal children who need his skillful touch. Can his growing feelings for Montana lead him to find a home in Fool's...
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"A wounded warrior and his younger brother discover the true meaning of Christmas in this timeless story of family bonds. A poignant continuation of the Lowcountry Summer series. As far as ten-year-old Miller McClellan is concerned, it's the worst Christmas ever. His father's shrimp boat is docked, his mother is working two jobs, and with finances strained, Miller is told they can't afford the dog he desperately wants. "Your brother's return from...
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Series
Neah Bay novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Former US Marine Jess Winslow reenters civilian life a new widow, with little more to her name than a falling-down house, a medical discharge for PTSD, and a loyal dog named Lucy. The only thing she actually cares about is that dog, a black-and-white pit bull mix who helps her cope with the devastating memories of her time in Afghanistan. After fifteen years—nearly half his life—in state prison, Mason Burke owns one set of clothes, a wallet, and...
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Series
Buster volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"Tonio is not allowed to let anyone know that he can communicate fluently with his therapy dog, Buster. But when dogkind requires that Tonio make friends with a bully, are Tonio and Buster going to go through a ruff patch... or learn some new tricks to keep the dogs in their town safe?"--
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Series
Elvis and the underdogs volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
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.
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
When Captain Isaac Goddard saves Vanessa Gomez from a vicious attack, he discovers the feisty military nurse is the Red Rose Killer's next target. With help from Vanessa's guard Doberman, the former pilot makes it his mission to protect Vanessa and her young brother. But when the danger closes in, can he overcome the post-traumatic stress that haunts him and stop a ruthless killer?
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
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"Luna has always wanted to be a therapy dog at Therapy Dogs Worldwide. Now she's a whisker away from reaching her fifty-visit pin that will make it official. But when her "clients"—the children who visit her—are put into a therapy group, Luna's routine is upended. Like the moon, Luna shows different faces at different times. And her clients each have different needs—Beatrice is tangled in knots of anger, Caleb rushes like a waterfall, Amelia...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Rescue thought he'd grow up to be a Seeing Eye dog -- it's the family business, after all. When he gets the news that he's better suited to being a service dog, he's worried that he's not up to the task. Then he meets Jessica, a girl whose life is turning out differently than the way she'd imagined it, too. Now Jessica needs Rescue by her side to help her accomplish everyday tasks. And it turns out that Rescue can help Jessica see after all: a way...
12) My buddy
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Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A young boy with muscular dystrophy tells how he is teamed up with a dog trained to do things for him that he can't do for himself.
13) Mountain rescue
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Operation K-9 brothers volume 3
Pub. Date
[2021].
Description
The sole witness to a murder, stuntwoman Rachel Denning thought shed found the perfect hideout in a remote cabin just outside Asheville, North Carolina. Until a strange man appears in her bedroom. After a few terrifying moments, she realizes its a mix-uphes not there to kill herand Rachel finds herself with an unexpected protector in the form of a navy SEAL. Dallas Manning is just trying to recover. After being rescued from the Taliban, hes on extended...
14) Still the one
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Series
Animal magnetism volume 6
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
When the man who once rejected her when she needed him most asks for her help in securing grants for his patients, Darcy Stone cannot refuse since she needs the money to fund her own project, but is distracted from the task at hand by the growing passion between them.
15) A man of his own
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Pub. Date
©2013.
Description
Rick Stanton was a promising professional baseball player with dreams of playing in the major leagues and starting a family with his young wife, Francesca, when World War II changed everything. Rick returns from the war with his body broken and his dreams shattered, but it was not just body and spirit he sacrificed for the war. He and Francesca volunteered their beloved dog, Pax, for the Armys K-9 Corp, not knowing if theyd ever see him again. Keller...
16) The dog I loved
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After spending years in prison for a crime she didn't intend to commit, Rose Collins is suddenly free. Someone who knows about the good work she has done—training therapy dogs while serving time—has arranged for her early release. This mysterious benefactor has even set her up with a job in the coastal Massachusetts community of Gloucester, on the edge of Dogtown, a place of legend and, for the first time since Rosie's whole world came crashing...
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Puppy place. Main series volume 16
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
The Peterson family has a new puppy, Honey the golden lab, to foster, and Charles sets about trying to find her a perfect home.
18) A dog like Daisy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Daisy has only ten weeks to prove her usefulness or else be sent back to the pound. Yet if she goes back, who will protect Colonel Victor from his PTSD attacks? Or save the littler human, Micah, from those infernal ear muzzles he calls earphones? What if no one ever adopts her again? Determined to become the elite protector the colonel needs, Daisy vows to ace the service dog test. She'll accept the ridiculous leash and learn to sit, heel, shake,...
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Series
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Surgeon Simon Bradley, who, scarred since childhood, moves from place to place to avoid emotional attachments, helping to heal children who need his skillful touch, is surprised to discover that, after meeting therapy dog trainer Montana Hendrix, he is in no hurry to leave Fool's Gold.
20) Cooper's story
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Series
Dog's purpose (Juvenile) volume 9
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Cooper, a malamute-Great Dane puppy, finds purpose as service dog and emotional support animal to fifth-grader Burke, a boy in a wheelchair.