Johnsburg Public Library
1/17/2008 @ 11:34am If you like Because of Winn-Dixie
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J 636.708 GEO
George, Jean Craighead, 1919-. How to talk to your dog. New
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
illustrated by Louis Darling.
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,
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.
Peachtree, c2005. After he and his mother move from
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.
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.
Buggins seem to get into nothing but mischief no matter how
good their intentions are.
J FIC EST
Estes,
Eleanor, 1906-. Ginger Pye.
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, Richard.
talking dog, Frankie, as a constant companion, ten-year-old
Cal Barraclough investigates his wacky neighbor's unusual
experiments.
J FIC
Harlow,
Joan Hiatt. Thunder
from the sea. 1st ed.
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
J FIC HURWITZ
Hurwitz,
Johanna. Aldo Peanut
Butter.
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.
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.
: 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.
: 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.
1991. When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his
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.
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
J FIC TOLAN
Tolan, Stephanie S.
Listen! 1st ed.
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
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.
Children's Books, c2003. After being marooned on an island
near
Francisco, becomes allied with a group of dogs who protect
the local sheep from wild dogs. After being marooned on an
island near
protect the local sheep from wild dogs.
YA FIC LON
Macmillan, 1963.