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3) Old Yeller
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In the rugged landscape of early frontier Texas, fourteen-year-old Travis faces taking over his family's farm and making a painful, important decision.
4) Rusty
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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.
5) Roxy
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When the Petersons take in Roxy, a puppy with an injured leg, Charles decides to try to train Roxy using the scientific method and help her find a new home.
6) Pax
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"After being forced to give up his pet fox Pax, a young boy named Peter decides to leave home and get his best friend back"--
7) Kodiak
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While heading to a cabin in the woods for a girls' weekend, Lizzie Peterson and her friends rescue a wild, energetic Malamute stray with a mind of his own, that they try to tame and find a home.
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"La La Fine relates to animals better than she does to other people. Abandoned by a mother who never wanted a family, raised by a locksmith-turned-thief father, La La looks to pets when it feels like the rest of the world conspires against her. La La's world stops being whole when her mother, who never wanted a child, abandons her twice. First, when La La falls through thin ice on a skating trip, and again when the accusations of "unfit mother" feel...
10) Shadow
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Surviving in a cave in war-torn Afghanistan, Aman and his mother are separated from Aman's beloved dog, Shadow, when they flee for the safety of England, a situation that compels Aman to accept help from new friends to reunite with his dog.
11) A dog's journey
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Believing that he has achieved his purpose throughout several eventful lives, Buddy the dog is drawn to a vibrant but troubled teen who he struggles to help until they are separated.
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2021.
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English
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Adult Winter Reading Challenge
Adult Winter Reading Challenge 2025
Adult Winter Reading: Heartwarming Stories
Adult Winter Reading: Historical Fiction
Adult Winter Reading Challenge 2025
Adult Winter Reading: Heartwarming Stories
Adult Winter Reading: Historical Fiction
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"The Elephant of Belfast chronicles a seven-month period of time when the Germans unexpectedly bombed Belfast, Northern Ireland, also known as the Belfast Blitz. Through the lens of the Bellevue Zoo and one of its zookeepers, twenty-year-old Hettie Quin, the novel animates how the war irrevocably impacted-and shaped the lives of Belfast's citizens in broad and intimate ways. In October 1940, Hettie meets Violet, a three-year-old Asian elephant arriving...
13) Wild born
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As a dark force engulfs the land, the fate of Erdas has fallen on the shoulders of four young strangers who each have forged a rare bond with their spirit beasts--a bond that gives great powers to all of them.
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Adult Summer Reading 2023: Audiobooks
Adult Summer Reading 2023: Books With Dual Timelines
Adult Summer Reading 2023: Inspiring Books
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Adult Summer Reading 2023: Books With Dual Timelines
Adult Summer Reading 2023: Inspiring Books
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Staying busy has helped Tova cope ever since her son disappeared decades ago. So when her husband dies, she takes a job at the aquarium, where she meets Marcellus, an octopus that deduces what happened to her son.
For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began...
16) Rise of Zombert
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2020.
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Secretly rescuing a stray cat while helping Danny make a horror film, Mellie becomes the recipient of the cat's gifts of headless birds and mice, while Danny harbors growing suspicions that the cat is actually a zombie.
17) Coo
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"Coo, a ten-year-old girl raised by a flock of pigeons, delights in finally making human contact, but quickly learns that our world is more cruel and complicated than she could have guessed"--
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