Akron Public Library

After living happily in a warm home with an eleven-year-old boy, a pit bull terrier is forced to survive on the streets, where its brave deeds surprise many residents who dislike or fear pit bulls.

2) Lila and Hadley

Author

Keplinger, Kody

Pub. Date

2020.

Description

Hadley is an angry girl: angry at her mother for embezzling money, angry at her estranged older sister, Beth, whom she has to live with while her mother is in jail, angry at having to move to Kentucky away from her friends, and angry at the world because she has retinitis pigmentosa and is slowly going blind; but then she meets Lila, a rescued pit bull who has not responded to anyone else--so if Hadley can train Lila, maybe the dog can get adopted...

3) Higglety pigglety pop!, or, There must be more to life

Author

Sendak, Maurice

Description

Bored with her luxurious life, Jennie goes out into the world to look for "something more than everything". She learns that the World Mother Goose Theatre needs a leading lady and eventually finds herself the star of the show.

4) A day in the life of Murphy

Author

Provensen, Alice

Description

Murphy, a farm terrier, describes a day in his life as he gets fed in the kitchen, hunts mice, goes to the vet, returns to the house for dinner, investigates a noise outside, and retires to the barn for sleep.

5) A dog like Daisy

Author

Tubb, Kristin O'Donnell

Description

Daisy has only ten weeks to prove her usefulness or else be sent back to the pound. Yet if she goes back, who will protect Colonel Victor from his PTSD attacks? Or save the littler human, Micah, from those infernal ear muzzles he calls earphones? What if no one ever adopts her again? Determined to become the elite protector the colonel needs, Daisy vows to ace the service dog test. She'll accept the ridiculous leash and learn to sit, heel, shake,...

6) Poppy

Author

Shotz, Jennifer Li

Series

American dog volume 2

Pub. Date

[2020]

Description

With the help of a very special pit bull puppy, twelve-year-old Hannah adjusts to moving from Michigan to California and makes friends, despite the birthmark that makes her self-conscious.

7) Dog dog goose

Author

Series

Lily to the rescue volume 4

Pub. Date

2020.

Description

"Lily lives with her girl, Maggie Rose. Once a stray, Lily was rescued by the kind people at the animal shelter run by Maggie Rose's mom. Now she has a very important purpose: to rescue other animals in trouble. A gaggle of orphaned baby geese think Lily is their mother. But they need to learn how to fly. Can Lily find a way to teach them? It's Lily to the rescue!"--Amazon.

8) The not-so-stinky skunk

Author

Series

Lily to the rescue volume 3

Pub. Date

2020.

Description

"Lily lives with her girl, Maggie Rose. Once a stray, Lily was rescued by the kind people at the animal shelter run by Maggie Rose's mom. Now she has a very important purpose: to rescue other animals in trouble. Lily lives with her girl, Maggie Rose. Once a stray, Lily was rescued by the kind people at the animal shelter run by Maggie Rose's mom. Now she has a very important purpose: to rescue other animals in trouble. On a camping trip with Maggie...

9) McDuff moves in

Author

Series

Description

A little white dog that nobody seems to want finds just the right home--and a name. No one wants the nameless little dog wandering the streets looking unsuccessfully for food and shelter until kindhearted Fred and Lucy, a young couple, take him inside. After they feed him rice pudding and bathe him, they realize that they cannot bear to return him to the pound. Newly adopted, McDuff–named that night for their favorite shortbread biscuit–is last...

10) Lily to the rescue

Author

Series

Lily to the rescue volume 1

Pub. Date

2020

Description

Lily meets a crow with a broken wing, so she and Maggie Rose take the crow home to Mom. But when the crow starts to become too tame, some unexpected problems arise. It's Lily to the rescue!

11) Lost little leopard

Author

Series

Lily to the rescue volume 5

Pub. Date

2021.

Description

"Lily lives with her girl, Maggie Rose. Once a stray, Lily was rescued by the kind people at the animal shelter run by Maggie Rose's mom. Now she has a very important purpose: to rescue other animals in trouble. When a lost little Amur leopard is brought to the zoo and needs a friend, it's Lily to the rescue!" -- Amazon.

12) Bow-Wow bugs a bug

Author

Newgarden, Mark

Series

Bow-Wow (Picture books) volume 1

Pub. Date

[2007]

Description

A wordless picture book about a persistent terrier who follows a bug through his neighborhood.

13) McDuff goes to school

Author

Series

Description

When McDuff and his new French-speaking neighbors' dog are enrolled in obedience school, it seems as though McDuff has not learned his lessons.

14) Lily's story: a puppy tale

Author

Series

Dog's purpose (Juvenile) volume 7
A puppy tale

Pub. Date

2019.

Description

A rescue dog to the rescue! Lily is the smallest puppy in her litter and the only girl. Her brothers are bigger and stronger and like to push her around. When Lily meets a girl named Maggie Rose at the animal shelter, Lily discovers things are not so bad. Lily's size means that she can help other animals who are in trouble. It's Lily to the rescue!

15) Ivan the terrier

Author

Catalanotto, Peter

Pub. Date

[2007]

Description

A terrier named Ivan keeps interrupting story hour.

16) McDuff and the baby

Author

Series

Description

McDuff enjoys reading the paper with Fred and taking walks in the woods with Lucy, but all that changes when they bring a new baby home.

17) McDuff's wild romp

Author

Series

Pub. Date

[2005]

Description

Sunday dinner at Aunt Frieda's means an evening with mean old cat Purlina and she and McDuff have a wild romp through the house.

18) Lily to the rescue: Two little piggies

Series

Lily to the rescue volume 2

Pub. Date

2020.

Description

Maggie Rose and Lily meet two little piggies who are lost at a rest stop and need their mother. But no one knows where they came from. How will they ever find the piglets' mom? It's Lily to the rescue!

19) Stay with me

Author

Griffin, Paul

Pub. Date

[2011]

Description

Fifteen-year-olds Mack, a high school drop-out but a genius with dogs, and Cece, who hopes to use her intelligence to avoid a life like her mother's, meet and fall in love at the restaurant where they both work, but when Mack lands in prison he pushes Cece away and only a one-eared pit-bull can keep them together.

20) Belly rubbins for Bubbins: the story of a rescue dog

Author

Kraus, Jason

Series

Belly rubbins for Bubbins volume 1

Pub. Date

2019.

Description