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2015
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"Join journalist Peter Zheutlin as he travels with Greg [Mahle] from Ohio to the Gulf Coast on his Rescue Road Trips to bring hard-luck dogs from the deep South to loving 'forever families' up north, with the help of many selfless volunteers along the way"--Page 4 of cover.
4) The twits
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Twit are the smelliest, nastiest, ugliest people in the world. They hate everything -- except playing mean jokes on each other, catching unsuspecting birds to put in their bird pies, and making their caged monkeys, the Muggle-Wumps, stand on their heads all day. But the Muggle-Wumps have had enough. With the help of Roly-Poly Bird, they set out to get some well-deserved revenge.
6) Shiloh
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Shiloh quartet volume 1
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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.
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One and only Ivan stories volume 1
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Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it at all. Instead, Ivan thinks about TV shows he's seen and about his friends Stella, an elderly elephant, and Bob, a stray dog. But mostly Ivan thinks about art and how to capture the taste of a mango or...
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Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 2
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Francine Poulet is the greatest animal control officer in Gizzford County. She hails from a long line of Animal Control Officers. Shes battled snakes, outwitted squirrels, and stared down a bear. "The genuine article," Francines dad always called her. She is never scared-until, that is, shes faced with a screaming raccoon that may or may not be a ghost. Maybe Francine isnt cut out to be an animal control officer after all! But the raccoon is still...
10) The magic finger
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Angered by a neighboring family's sport hunting, an eight-year-old girl turns her magic finger on them.
11) The tiger rising
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"In one morning, Rob Horton discovers a tiger in a cage and a girl who speaks her mind. It's then that he begins to understand that some things - like memories, and heartache, and tigers - can't be locked up forever" -- back cover.
12) Man in the Woods
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Paul Phillips, a carpenter living in upstate New York with Kate Ellis and her daughter, Ruby, commits a crime whose only witness was a mixed-breed dog, and fears getting away with the crime as much as he fears the discovery of his terrible secret.
15) Patches
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Puppy place. Main series volume 8
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2007.
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The Peterson's new foster puppy is Patches. He's a cute beagle with long, floppy ears and a mournful howl. His owners leave him tied up all day and Charles tries to help.
18) Massacre pond
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On an unseasonably hot October morning, Maine Game Warden Mike Bowditch is called to the scene of a bizarre crime: the corpses of six moose have been found senselessly butchered on the estate of Elizabeth Morse, a wealthy animal rights activist who is buying up huge parcels of timberland to create a new national park. What at first seems like mindless slaughter-retribution by locals for the job losses Morse's plan is already causing in the region-becomes...
19) Black Beauty
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"Black Beauty is a perennial children's favourite, one which has never been out of print since its publication in 1877. It is a moralistic tale of the life of the horse related in the form of an autobiography, describing the world through the eyes of the creature. In taking this anthropomorphic approach, the author Anna Sewell broke new literary ground and her effective storytelling ability makes it very easy for the reader to accept the premise that...