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Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Foster children Andi and Bruce have been placed with a flaky couple who care more for their aspiring rock careers than their charges. Their mischievous tendencies repeatedly get them into trouble. After a close call with the local pound, the kids end up searching for Friday, their secretly adopted dog, in an abandoned old hotel where they find several other stray dogs seeking shelter. They, along with three other local kids, begin caring for the strays....
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Single dad and struggling animal handler Eddie works with lots of creatures, but at home, he has a strict No Pets Allowed policy. He won't let his son Billy keep the adorable stray dog Beethoven and his family of puppies. Beethoven crashes into Hollywood and into Eddie's heart as well.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Zitlally's family is undocumented, and her father has just been arrested for speeding and deported back to Mexico. As her family waits for him to return-they've paid a coyote to guide him back across the border-they receive news that he and the coyote's other charges have been kidnapped and are being held for ransom. Meanwhile, Zitlally and a new friend find a dog in the forest near their trailer park. They name it Star for the star-shaped patch over...
5) Strays
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
They say a dog is a man's best friend, but what if the man is a total dirtbag? In that case, it might be time for some sweet revenge, doggy style. When Reggie, a naive, relentlessly optimistic Border Terrier, is abandoned on the mean city streets by his lowlife owner, Doug, Reggie is certain that his beloved owner would never leave him on purpose. But once Reggie falls in with a fast-talking, foul-mouthed Boston Terrier named Bug, a stray who loves...
8) Rafa's dog
Author
Pub. Date
1983
Description
A Spanish child who befriends a stray dog finds that relationship helpful when tragedy strikes his family.
9) U turn
Pub. Date
1998, c1997
Description
A small time gambler and a woman caught in a twisted relationship with her powerful husband want to get out of the town of Superior, Arizona
11) Frank
Pub. Date
2008
Description
A family from the big city spends the summer on an island. They find a stray dog, and together they find that the best thing in life is family.
12) Strays
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
They say a dog is a man's best friend, but what if the man is a total dirtbag? In that case, it might be time for some sweet revenge, doggy style. When Reggie, a naive, relentlessly optimistic Border Terrier, is abandoned on the mean city streets by his lowlife owner, Doug, Reggie is certain that his beloved owner would never leave him on purpose. But once Reggie falls in with a fast-talking, foul-mouthed Boston Terrier named Bug, a stray who loves...
Description
The poetic and touching film from director Anca Damian follows an optimistic stray dog named Marona as she looks back on the human companions she has loved throughout her life. Delivered alongside dazzlingly colorful, sweeping designs produced in part by acclaimed artist Brecht Evens, it is a life-affirming tale told with the patient, boundless love of a dog, and reminds that happiness is a small thing.
14) Hotel for dogs
Pub. Date
2009
Description
When two orphans, living with foster parents who don't allow pets, keep secretly caring for their dog discover stray dogs in an abandoned hotel, they fix up the building and get help from their friends to run the new shelter.
16) The dog of Jesus
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
"For several centuries an isolated mountain village in Mexico has held hidden an amazing secret, an immortal dog that performs miracles of healing. Recorded in ancient Spanish records, it is the dog of Christ, a mongrel stray dog that was present at the crucifixion and which was stabbed by the same spear that pierced the body of the Savior. When a tragedy reveals the dog's existence through a series of miracles accidentally caught on television, it...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Soccer dog : the movie: A couple involve their adopted son in soccer to bring him out of his shell with the help of a stray dog who becomes the star player.
Soccer dog : European cup: A newly orphaned boy meets his biological father, the captain of a struggling Scottish soccer team, and the two become involved with an escaped lab dog who has a talent for the game.
Author
Pub. Date
[c2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
After eleven-year-old Zitlally's father is deported to Mexico, she takes refuge in her trailer park's forest of rusted car parts, where she befriends a spunky neighbor and finds a stray dog that she nurses back to health and believes she must keep safe so that her father will return. Includes author's note about immigration from Mexico to the United States, and Nahuatl and Spanish glossaries.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Join Strawberry shortcake and some new furry friends in these delightful tails about being one's self and encouraging others to do the same. During his road trip to find homes for his orphan puppies, Huckleberry Pie and his four-legged crew get stranded in Berry Bitty City. Luckily, Strawberry and her berry best pals decide to help out with the strays in "A boy and his dog's", Blueberry Muffin and Huck become partners in crime when they try to write...