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Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Hank the Cowdog, Head of Ranch Security, is framed for the murder of a chicken and becomes an outlaw with the coyotes.
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume A7
Publisher
Maverick Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Slim Chance, with dogs Hank and Drover in tow, heads out to town to buy a Valentine's Day gift for Miss Viola. Even though shopping is not one of his favorite activities, Slim manages to find a beautiful box of candy. The only problem is that his canine companions like candy too.
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Hank the Cowdog, Head of Ranch Security, matches wits with an escaped circus monkey.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
After a daring escape from the animal shelter, Pearl, Peppy, and K-10--so named because he is one step above all the other canines--explore the outside world while moving from one adventure to another.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
When Andy Shane befriends the new girl in town, everyone thinks he must be in love with her, but the reason he is spending so much time with her is because her dog just had puppies.
Author
Series
Publisher
Maverick Books
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
In "It's a dog's life" Hank goes to visit his sister in town. There he enjoys the garbage patrol of a lifetime and faces down a brood of sassy town cats. Hank contracts a case of "soap hydrophobia" and ends up imprisoned in the dog pound! Is there any hope of escape for everyone's favorite cowdog? In "Murder in the Middle Pasture" Hank investigates a brutal murder on the ranch. Only problem, no one's talking! After a dangerous fact-finding mission,...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, that is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack. White Fang is the story of a wolf-dog who is befriended by a kind man who becomes his master.
11) Shiloh
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
13) Sounder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A young Negro boy learns the pain of humiliation and anger when his father is given an unjust jail sentence for stealing a ham from a white man. Learning to read and to discover that things do not die but become part of other things brings the youngster new hope.
14) Old Yeller
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
In the rugged landscape of early frontier Texas, fourteen-year-old Travis is faced with taking over his family's farm and making a painful, important decision.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
"Life is good for Buck in Santa Clara Valley, where he spends his days eating and sleeping in the golden sunshine. But one day a treacherous act of betrayal leads to his kidnap, and he is forced into a life of toil and danger. Dragged away to be a sledge dog in the harsh and freezing cold Yukon, Buck must fight for his survivial. Can he rise above his enemies and become the master of his realm once again?"--
17) The good dog
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
McKinley, a malamute, is torn between the domestic world of his human family and the wild world of Lupin, a wolf that is trying to recruit dogs to replenish the dwindling wolf pack.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
160L
Language
English
Description
Biscuit bounds onto the scene ready for action in his newest adventure. Teaching her dog to fetch a ball takes patience and perseverance from his little girl and creates lots of fun along the way. Daisy the cat distracts him from his task, but when the ball rolls into an appealing mud puddle, the pup can't resist running after it.
20) Young Fredle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Fredle, a young mouse cast out of his home, faces dangers and predators outside, makes some important discoveries and allies, and learns the meaning of freedom as he struggles to return home.