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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sophie and her 300-year-old best vampire friend Delphine break into a secret government facility to find a cure for the illness causing vampires to go rogue.
24) The final case
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A provocative new novel from the best-selling author of Snow Falling on Cedars--a moving father-son story that is also a taut courtroom drama and a bold examination of privilege, power, and how to live a meaningful life. In a small rural town outside Seattle, Joanna, an Ethiopian girl adopted by a white fundamentalist Christian family, is found dead of hypothermia in her own backyard--setting in motion a gripping journey into the complexities of...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Laid off, cheated on, mugged: what else can go wrong in Maeve Stephens' life? So when she learns her birth mother has left her a house, a vintage VW Beetle, and a marauding cat, in the small town of Timber Creek, Washington, she packs up to discover the truth about her past. She arrives to the sight of a cheerful bulldog abandoned on her front porch, a reclusive but tempting author living next door, and a set of ready-made friends at the St. Francis...
27) Flash
Author
Series
The puppy place volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
82 pages : illustrated ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Charles and Lizzie Peterson are visiting their cousins in the country when they find an abandoned border collie puppy, and because he loves to run and chase, they know that finding the right forever home for the puppy they name Flash will be a challenge.
29) The possibility dogs: what a handful of "unadoptables" taught me about service, hope, and healing
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
A tour of the psychiatric service dog industry traces the author's work with unwanted shelter dogs before matching them with people in need, documenting her own partnership with a search canine while sharing uplifting success stories.
Author
Publisher
St Martins Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
146 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Inspiring, true tales of interspecies adoption, One Big Happy Family tells the heartwarming stories of animals who have reached out to save the lives of babies from other species and raise them as their own. Whether it's the border collie and his piglets, the cat and her ducklings, the orangutan and his lion cubs, or even the Labrador and her baby hippo, these are poignant, charming tales of animals who have felt the parental instinct and cared for...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Count Falier was urging his Venetian son-in-law to investigate, and preferably intervene in, the seemingly innocent plan of the Count's best friend, the elderly Gonzalo Rodriguez de Tejada, to adopt a much younger man as his son. Under Italian inheritance laws this man would then be heir to Gonzalo's entire fortune, a prospect Gonzalo's friends find appalling. For his part, Brunetti wonders why the old man, a close family friend, can't be allowed...
33) Greenglass House
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
At Greenglass House, the innkeepers' adopted son Milo plans to spend his winter holidays relaxing, but soon guests are arriving with strange stories about the house, sending Milo and Meddy, the cook's daughter, on an adventure.
34) Duchess
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
90 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Mia discovers that Duchess's owner is moving, she offers to help. But it won't be easy finding someone who will want to spoil the pretty white Persian.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Milo is stuck spending the winter holidays in a house full of strange guests who are not what they seem--again! He will have to work with friends old and new to uncover clues in search of a mysterious map and a famous smuggler's lost haul"--
39) Problem pup
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
78 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kyle's friend Drew has adopted a dog from the shelter, but the boys need to teach it manners and obedience or Drew's parents are going to send it back.
40) Max and Max 2
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (211 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Military dog Max returns from service in Afghanistan, traumatized by his handler's death. He's adopted by the man's family and helps the grieving family heal.