Listen!
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
subjects: dogs, accidents, mothers, death [X], charlotte (n.c.), pets, animals [X], large type books, large print books
Dog Heaven
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
A Dog Like Jack
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
Julia Gillian (and The Quest For Joy)
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
subjects: school stories, friendship, trumpets, secrecy, family life, minneapolis (minn.), fear, saint bernard dog, dogs, death [X], reading, middle schools, families, schools, best friends, trumpet, secrets, neighborhoods, neighborhood, family, pets, animals [X]
Where The Red Fern Grows
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
subjects: dogs, animal story, ozark mountains, death [X], large type books, large print books, human-animal relationships, human-animal relationship, pets, animals [X]
Badger's Parting Gifts
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
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
subjects: death [X], self-confidence, dogs, interpersonal relations, friendship, coming of age, bildungsromans, pets, animals [X], bildungsromans
Trouble
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
subjects: traffic accidents, death [X], dogs, family, cambodian americans, massachusetts, katahdin, mount (me.), family life, prejudices, refugees, accidents, pets, animals [X], families
One More Wednesday
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:
I'll Always Love You
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
Shadows
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:
Where The Red Fern Grows
Starring James Whitmore, Beverly Garland, Jack Ging, Stewart Peterson.
FIC
year: 3121
copies: 47
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: closed caption video recordings, death [X], animals [X], dogs, dvds, ozark mountains, audiobooks, hounds, pets, farm life, oklahoma, children's audiobooks, , children's audiobooks
Dive
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:
Bear's Last Journey
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: