Johnsburg Public Library

 

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J 636.708 GEO                

           George, Jean Craighead, 1919-.  How to talk to your dog.  New

                York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2000.  Describes how dogs

                communicate with people through their behavior and sounds

                and explains how to talk back to them using sounds,

                behavior, and body language.

 

J 811.54 WOO                 

           Woodson, Jacqueline.  Locomotion.  New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons,

                c2003.  In a series of poems, eleven-year-old Lonnie writes

                about his life after the death of his parents, separated

                from his younger sister, living in a foster home, and

                finding his poetic voice at school.

 

J FIC ARM                    

           Armstrong, William H.  Sounder.  New York : Scholastic, 1969.

                Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed

                for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in

                courage and understanding with the help of the devoted dog

                Sounder, and also by learning to read.

 

J FIC BLUME                  

           Blume, Lesley M. M.  Cornelia and the audacious escapades of the

                Somerset sisters.  1st ed.  New York : Alfred A. Knopf,

                c2006.  Cornelia, eleven-years-old and lonely, learns about

                language and life from an elderly new neighbor who has many

                stories to share about the fabulous adventures she and her

                sisters had while traveling around the world.

 

J FIC BYA                    

           Byars, Betsy Cromer.  Wanted-- Mud Blossom.  New York : Delacorte

                Press, 1991.  Convinced that Mud is responsible for the

                disappearance of the school hamster that was his

                responsibility for the weekend, Junior Blossom is determined

                that the dog should be tried for his "crime.".

 

J FIC CLE                    

           Cleary, Beverly.  Henry and Ribsy / by Beverly Cleary ;

                illustrated by Louis Darling.  New York : Morrow, 1954.

                Henry gets himself into all sorts of funny situations when

                he tries to keep his dog, Ribsy, out of trouble. Grades 3-5.

 

J FIC CLE                    

           Cleary, Beverly.  Henry Huggins.  New York : Morrow, 1978, c1950.

                When Henry adopts Ribsy, a dog of no particular breed,

                humorous adventures follow.

 

J FIC COLLARD                 

           Collard, Sneed B.  Dog sense : a novel.  1st ed.  Atlanta, GA :

                Peachtree, c2005.  After he and his mother move from

                California to Montana to live with his grandfather,

                thirteen-year-old Guy gradually adjusts to the unfamiliar

                surroundings, makes a friend, and learns to deal with a

                bully, with the help of his Frisbee-catching dog, Streak.

 

J FIC CRE                    

           Creech, Sharon.  Love that dog.  New York : HarperCollins, 2001.

                A young student, who comes to love poetry through a personal

                understanding of what different famous poems mean to him,

                surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem.

 

J FIC CRE                     

           Cresswell, Helen.  Posy Bates, again!  1st North American ed.

                New York : Macmillan, c1994.  Posy Bates and her stray dog

                Buggins seem to get into nothing but mischief no matter how

                good their intentions are.

 

J FIC EST                    

           Estes, Eleanor, 1906-.  Ginger Pye.  San Diego : Harcourt Brace

                Jovanovich, [1990], c1951.  When the Pye family's puppy,

                Ginger, disappears on Thanksgiving Day, the children are

                convinced that he has been adbucted by a stranger in a

                yellow hat.

 

J FIC HAMILTON               

           Hamilton, Richard.  Cal and the amazing anti-gravity machine.

                New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2006.  With his

                talking dog, Frankie, as a constant companion, ten-year-old

                Cal Barraclough investigates his wacky neighbor's unusual

                experiments.

 

J FIC HARLOW                 

           Harlow, Joan Hiatt.  Thunder from the sea.  1st ed.  New York :

                Margaret K. McElderry Books, c2004.  Just when his dreams of

                being part of a family and having a dog seem to be coming

                true, Tom wonders if trouble with neighbors on his new

                island home and the impending birth of a new baby will

                change everything. Set in Newfoundland in 1929.

 

J FIC HURWITZ                

           Hurwitz, Johanna.  Aldo Peanut Butter.  New York : Morrow Junior

                Books, c1990.  Peanut and Butter, the two dogs Aldo gets for

                his eleventh birthday, create chaos inside the house while

                his parents are out of town and get accused of tearing up

                the neighbor's lawn.

 

J FIC LOW                    

           Lowry, Lois.  Anastasia, absolutely.  Boston : Houghton Mifflin,

                1995.  More adventures of thirteen-year-old Anastasia

                Krupnick as she tries to deal with a new dog, her school

                values class, and a personal moral dilemma.

 

J FIC MARTIN                 

           Martin, Ann M., 1955-.  Dawn and the disappearing dogs.  New York

                : Scholastic, 1993.  Dawn feels terrible when her

                pet-sitting charge, Cheryl, disappears. She doesn't

                understand how the hugh Great Dane just vanished.

 

J FIC MAZ                    

           Mazer, Harry.  The dog in the freezer : three novellas.  New York

                : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1997.  Each of

                these three novellas looks at the relationship between a boy

                and a dog in a very different and unusual way.

 

J FIC NAY                    

           Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds.  Shiloh.  1st ed.  New York : Atheneum,

                1991.  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.

 

J FIC STAPLES                

           Staples, Suzanne Fisher.  The green dog : a mostly true story.

                1st ed.  New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.  During

                the summer before fifth grade, Suzanne, a daydreaming loner

                who likes to fish and walk through the woods, acquires a

                canine companion. Based on the author's childhood in

                northeastern Pennsylvania.

 

J FIC TOLAN                  

           Tolan, Stephanie S.  Listen!  1st ed.  New York : HarperCollins

                Publishers, c2006.  During her solitary convalescence from a

                crippling accident, twelve-year-old Charley finds a wild

                dog, and the arduous process of training him leads her to

                explore her feelings about her mother's death two years

                earlier.

 

NEW J FIC MORGAN              

           Morgan, Clay.  The boy who returned from the sea.  1st ed.  New

                York : Dutton Children's Books, c2007.  Jack is reunited

                with his beloved sheepdog Moxie on the island where they

                first met, but the dangerous Blackburn Jukes is there too,

                searching for valuable amber that is hidden in the island's

                bogs.

 

NEW J FIC MORGAN             

           Morgan, Clay.  The boy who spoke dog.  New York : Dutton

                Children's Books, c2003.  After being marooned on an island

                near New Zealand, Jack, an orphaned cabin boy from San

                Francisco, becomes allied with a group of dogs who protect

                the local sheep from wild dogs.  After being marooned on an

                island near New Zealand, Jack, an orphaned cabin boy from

                San Francisco, becomes allied with a group of dogs who

                protect the local sheep from wild dogs.

 

YA FIC LON                   

           London, Jack, 1876-1916.  The call of the wild.  New York :

                Macmillan, 1963.