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author: Tolan, Stephanie S
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.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 55
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 910

Dog Heaven

author: Rylant, Cynthia
God created Dog Heaven, a place where dogs can eat ice cream biscuits, sleep on fluffy clouds, and run through unending fields.
FIC
year: 1995
copies: 58
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
subjects: dogs, heaven, pets, dying, death [X], animals [X]

A Dog Like Jack

author: Disalvo-ryan, Dyanne
After a long life of chasing squirrels, licking ice cream cones, and loving his adoptive family, an old dog comes to the end of his days.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 22
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 630
subjects: dogs, death [X], grief, pets, animals [X]

Julia Gillian (and The Quest For Joy)

author: Mcghee, Alison
Nine-year-old Julia Gillian learns a lot about facing fear as she and her St.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 53
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820

Where The Red Fern Grows

author: Rawls, Wilson
A young boy living in the Ozarks achieves his heart's desire when he becomes the owner of two redbone hounds and teaches them to be champion hunters.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 250
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700

Badger's Parting Gifts

author: Varley, Susan
Badger's friends are sad when he dies, but they each have fond memories and treasure the legacies he left them.
FIC
year: 1997
copies: 23
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770

Skin Deep

author: Crane, E. M
High school student Andrea Anderson has always been content watching life from the sidelines, but when she begins a new job helping her reclusive neighbor, Andrea is forced to rethink everything she believes in and take a more active role in the world around her.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770

Trouble

author: Schmidt, Gary D, Cresswell, Helen; Illustrated By Margaret Chamberlain
Fourteen-year-old Henry, wishing to honor his brother Franklin's dying wish, sets out to hike Maine's Mount Katahdin with his best friend and dog, but fate adds another companion--the Cambodian refugee accused of fatally injuring Franklin--and reveals troubles that predate the accident.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 49
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 930

One More Wednesday

author: Doray, Malika
When a little animal's grandmother dies, he remembers good times with her and asks his mother about death.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: death [X], grandmothers, animals [X]

I'll Always Love You

author: Wilhelm, Hans
A child's sadness at the death of a beloved dog is tempered by the remembrance of saying to it every night, "I'll always love you.
FIC
year: 1990
copies: 56
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 620
subjects: dogs, death [X], pets, animals [X]

Badger's Parting Gifts

author: Varley, Susan
FIC
year: 1997
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
subjects: animals [X], death [X]

Shadows

author: Hall, Lynn
Several days following her mother's death Audrey is attracted to a rare blue merle collie and drawn into the mystery of his background.
FIC
year: 1992
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: dogs, death [X], pets, animals [X]

Where The Red Fern Grows

author: Rawls, Wilson, Wilson Rawls, Whitmore, James, Stewart, Douglas
Starring James Whitmore, Beverly Garland, Jack Ging, Stewart Peterson.
FIC
year: 3121
copies: 47
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700

Dive

author: Donovan, Stacey
Fifteen year old Virginia's world begins to fall apart when her dog is hit by a car, her father is hospitalized with a mysterious illness, and her best friend begins to ignore her.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: animals [X], pets, dogs, alcoholism, lesbians, death [X], friendship

Bear's Last Journey

author: Weigelt, Udo
All the animals in the forest must deal with the death of their old friend, the bear, when he goes to sleep and never wakes up.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: animals [X], bears, grief, death [X]

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