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1) The rescue
Author
Publisher
Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Rescue is a gripping thriller that explores the strength of the human-animal bond and how far we will go to protect what we love by three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker. While reporting on a Tijuana animal shelter, journalist Bettina Blazak falls in love with one of her story's subjects-an adorable Mexican street dog who is being treated for a mysterious gunshot wound. Bettina impulsively adopts...
Author
Series
Publisher
Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
My Adopted Family is the story of a normal day in Adam's life. When classmate Lenny visits his home, he discovers Adam is adopted. Who makes him do his homework? Mom! Who makes Dinner? Dad! Who tucks him in? Mom and Dad! Lenny realizes love makes a family.
Author
Publisher
Christian Faith Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
36 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time, there was an old dusty road. It had little pebbles that jumped like frogs when cars drove over it, but usually no cars traveled on it, which was sad news to a little brown puppy in a shelter at the end of the road.
This touching story shows the proper power of prayer as the little brown puppy waits expectantly for God to send him a family. Through a series of unexpected events, the puppy finds himself at a loving couple's home....
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
"India Allwood grew up wanting to be an actress. Armed with a stack of index cards and a hell of a lot of talent, she goes from awkward 16-year-old to Broadway ingenue to tv star. But while promoting her most recent project, a film about adoption, India does what you should never do - she tells a journalist the truth: it's a bad movie. Like so many movies about adoption, it tells only one story, a tragic one. But India's an adoptive mom herself and...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Remy Wadia left India for the United States long ago, carrying his resentment of his mother with him. He has now returned to Bombay to adopt a baby--and to see his elderly mother for the first time in several years. Discovering that she is in the hospital, has stopped talking, and seems to have given up on life, he is struck with guilt for not realizing just how sick she has become. His unexpected appearance and assiduous attention revives her and...
6) Dear Stray
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition ;
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When one little girl gets to adopt a kitten, her family doesn't quite understand why she picks the prickliest one she can find. But as she says to her kitten, when I saw so much fury in your furry face, I thought maybe we needed each other. And it turns out that is true, as they are both learning how to live with their wild sides. But with a little time, space, and patience, they just might build enough trust to share a lot more purring moments than...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lucky dog Arfy has a home. When he discovers a homeless kitten, Arfy hopes Scamper can come live with him, but--achoo!--his person is allergic to cats! So, Arfy writes persuasive letters to prospective owners about what a great pet Scamper would make. But somehow these matches aren't made in heaven. If Scamper can't live with any of them, where will he go? He needs a quiet home where he could make people as happy as they'll make him, full of laps,...
8) Last Flight
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido, distributed by Chronicle Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
On April 24, 1975 the last flight out of Saigon, Vietnam carried over 400 people to the United States, six days before Saigon’s surrender to the North Vietnamese Army.
Kristen Giang was a little girl, on that flight with family, and here in this story she shares all the emotions of the decision to flee from the perspective of someone eight years old; Playing a game of space-explorers to protect herself and her sister’s eyes from tear gas; sneaking...
9) Dogtown
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Chance, a real dog, has been in the Dogtown shelter since her owners unwittingly left her with irresponsible dog-sitter who skipped town.
Metal Head is a robot dog who dreams of being back in a real home.
And Mouse is a mouse who has the run of Dogtown, pilfering kibble and performing clever feats to protect the dogs he loves.
When Chance and Metal Head embark on an adventure to find their forvever homes, they find danger, cheese sandwiches, a...