W. Bruce Cameron
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
The New York Times bestselling author of A Dog's Purpose continues his heartwarming series that perfectly captures the unconditional loving relationships between people and their loyal best friends in stories no dog lover can resist.
Basis for the Major Motion Picture starring Josh Gad and Dennis Quaid!
This program includes an afterword read by W. Bruce Cameron.
Audiences are invited along on A Dog's
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
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Description
"From the internationally bestselling author of A Dog's Purpose and A Dog's Way Home comes Love, Clancy: Diary of a Good Dog, a deeply moving story with a brand-new cast of characters, including one very good dog. You've probably never met someone like Clancy. He's keeping a diary, he's falling in love, there are rivals for his affections, he lives with his best friend and his worst enemy - even taken together, these factors are maybe not that unusual,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Formats
Description
The dog who thinks of himself as 'Bailey' knows one thing for sure: all dogs go to heaven after they have fulfilled their purpose on earth. But Bailey's work on earth is far from finished, there are still so many more humans that need a dog's talent for unconditional love. There is one family in particular that needs Bailey's help, a family that is on the verge of breaking apart. But if Bailey helps this family he won't remember his previous lives,...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Searching for his purpose over the course of multiple canine lives, Bailey is reborn as a golden-haired puppy after a tragic death as a stray and shares a loving bond with young Ethan before he again dies and starts over.
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Set against the most dramatic time in our species' history, The Dog Master tells the story of one tribe's struggle for survival and one extraordinary man's bond with a wolf-a friendship that changed mankind forever... Thirty thousand years ago, ice was storming the planet. Among the species forced out of the trees and onto the steppes by the advancing cold was modern man, who was both predator and prey. No stranger to the experiences that make us...
8) Emory's gift
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Description
In 1974, when thirteen-year-old Charlie Hall's mother dies and his father retreats into silent grief, Charlie finds himself drifting, nearly friendless, through a northern Idaho junior high school but when a grizzly bear saves his life, Charlie forms an unusual friendship that changes his life.
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"#1 New York Times bestselling author W. Bruce Cameron once again captures the bravery and determination of a very good dog in the gripping sequel to A Dog's Way Home, the acclaimed novel that inspired the hit movie! Bella was once a lost dog, but now she lives happily with her people, Lucas and Olivia, only occasionally recalling the hardships in her past. Then a weekend camping trip turns into a harrowing struggle for survival when the Rocky Mountains...
Author
Series
Publisher
Starscape
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"I knew the girl was mine. The one I had been waiting for. But this girl, the right girl, somehow didn't hear me. My barks were not loud enough to reach her. I was not big enough to jump the fence and race to her. She walked steadily on with the three dogs on the leashes, and Gail reached down into the pen. "My goodness, Max, what is all the racket about?" she asked, lifting me up. "Careful, now! You'll make me drop you!" I wiggled and whined in her...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Trained as a search-and-rescue dog since puppyhood, Ellie can track and find people who are physically lost, but it is her owners, widower Jakob and lonely Maya, who challenge her to find a way to save people who are lost in other ways.
Author
Series
Publisher
Starscape
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Maggie Rose and Lily meet two little piggies who are lost at a rest stop and need their mother. But no one knows where they came from. How will they ever find the piglets' mom? It's Lily to the rescue!
Author
Series
Publisher
Starscape
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
When Bailey meets eight-year-old Ethan, he quickly figures out his purpose: to play with the boy, to explore the Farm during summers with the boy, and to tidy the boy's dishes by licking them clean (only when Mom isn't watching). But Bailey soon learns that life isn't always so simple--that sometimes bad things happen--and that there can be no greater purpose than to protect the boy he loves.
16) Foxes in a fix
Author
Series
Publisher
Starscape
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Rescue dog Lily helps her owner Maggie Rosie find a missing family of Arctic foxes that escaped their cage at zoo.
Author
Series
Publisher
Starscape, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"Some dogs were born to lend a helping hand (or paw!). Zeus, a chocolate lab puppy, is one of them. With his courage, smarts, and strength his purpose seems clear: he'll become a water rescue dog! When a young boy named Kimo is tasked with training Zeus, they quickly become best friends. But Zeus's excitement makes training hard, and worse yet, becoming a working dog means being separated from Kimo. Can Zeus and his boy figure out how to stay together...
19) Toby's story
Author
Series
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Toby, an unusually calm beagle puppy, finds his purpose when Mona and her mother adopt him and teach him to be a therapy dog at a nursing home.