Although his behavior sometimes seems naughty, Sam the dog is a very good boy who helps his family and friends.

Welcome to the Puppy Place--where every puppy finds a home! Charles and Lizzie Peterson love puppies. Their family fosters these young dogs, giving them love and proper care, until they can find the perfect forever home. When Charles offers to foster Molly he thinks that she is a very sweet puppy. But then Charles finds out that she is a Rottweiler. He's never been scared of a foster dog before. Can he overcome his fear and find this gentle pup a...

From two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene comes a profound and surprising account of dogs on the front lines of rescuing both children and adults from the trenches of grief, emotional, physical, and cognitive disability, and post-traumatic stress disorder. The Underdogs tells the story of Karen Shirk, felled at age twenty-four by a neuromuscular disease and facing life as a ventilator-dependent, immobile patient, who was turned...

Follows the adventures of two mischievous dachshunds when they manage to escape to their family's backyard one day.

"Since she adopted him as a puppy fifteen years earlier, Jenna Blum and Woodrow have been inseparable. Woodrow and his 'Mommoo' are fixtures in their Boston neighborhood. But Woodrow is aging. As he begins to fail, the true nature of his relationship with Jenna is revealed. Jenna may be the dog parent, but it is Woodrow, with his personality and trusting nature, who has much to teach her. A divorcée who has experienced her share of sadness and loss,...

During her school vacation, Lizzie attends the Caring Paws Shelter's animal camp, where she is asked by Ms. Dobbins, the shelter director, to work with Rusty, a beautiful and energetic Irish setter.

"Stick Dog and his friends chase down a meat truck and make a new friend"--

When a white dog with black spots runs away from home, he gets so dirty his family doesn't recognize him as a black dog with white spots.

Marley the rambunctious puppy and his family prepare for Christmas, hoping very much for snow

Meeting an untrained English cream golden retriever while on a beach vacation at the Fair Harbor Inn, Charles Peterson and his pet-fostering family work to teach the rambunctious pup what she needs to learn to find a permanent home.