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2) Rita's rhino
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English
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When Rita's mother refuses to get her a pet, Rita goes to the zoo and returns with a rhinoceros--but keeping a pet rhino a secret proves to be much trickier than she ever imagined.
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English
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Books by and About Neurodivergent People
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Summer Reading Challenge: Read a Book with a Human Who Doesn't Look or Live Like You
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When his veterinarian mom brings home a stray baby skunk that needs rehabilitation before it can be placed in a wild animal shelter, Bat, who has austim, resolves to prove that he is up to the challenge of caring for the skunk permanently.
6) Pet show!
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English
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When he can't find his cat to enter in the neighborhood pet show, Archie must do some fast thinking to win a prize
11) Slithery Jake
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Pub. Date
c2004
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English
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A rhyming story about the hysteria that ensues when a new pet snake is found missing from his box
12) Can I keep him?
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Pub. Date
[1971]
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English
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Mother objects to every pet Arnold asks to keep except one--a person.
13) Pax
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English
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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"--
14) Izzy & Oscar
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"Octopuses make the best pets! Pretend pirate captain Izzy is looking for a pet when an adventurous little octopus squiggles into town"--
16) Sparky!
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Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
Description
A child takes a sloth named Sparky as a pet.
17) Class pet mess!
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Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
Description
Alexia is delighted when Mr. Cooper brings in Bob, a hognose snake, as class pet, but when Bob keels over, is Andrea's toy poodle or Alexia's neglect to blame?
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
Description
When a lizard hatches from the egg Leonard finds in the park, he names it Buster and takes it all around the city, but Buster grows bigger and bigger until Leonard realizes he must devise a way to return his pet to the deepest, darkest part of the park and set him free.
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