It's not so bad living a dog's life. Unless you're a cat. Then this baseball stuff started and Willy went bonkers. I never saw him act so crazy. On top of that, these two new cats moved into our neighborhood. Trouble was, tough-guy Roscoe and his cute fuzzy sister, Rikki, did not like dogs. I was showing them the sights when I suddenly pied the dogcatcher, just waiting to trap Willy as he raced around the field with a baseball in his mouth. But Roscoe...

In 1957, problems at the mine threaten to ruin Christmas for fifth-grader Don, his family, and the rest of their Oklahoma coal town, but Don's bloodhound, Frank, is determined to do whatever it takes to make the holiday special for Don and his six-year-old sister, Susan. Alternate chapters are told from the human and canine points of view.

Chuck the cat, lonely when his owner Katie goes to college and his best friend and fellow dog-hater Tom is taken away in a cage, can't believe it when he finds a new companion in a beast named Rotten Willy.

Tom, a young boy who must go get help for his injured grandfather in a blizzard through the panther territory, emerges a hero by managing to kill the panther.

Unhappy about his parents splitting up and moving with his mother to Grandpa's farm, eleven-year-old Luke finds comfort in riding and caring for a horse named Beauty. She was an old horse, but she could still run like a champ. Grampa warned him to be careful with Beauty, but Luke didn't listen. He'd told her all about his hopes, dreams, and fears-- secrets Beauty would never reveal. She was his pal, who went skinny dipping with him in forbidden ponds...

Eleven-year-old Bailey has a reputation for being a coward until the prophecy given him by an Indian medicine man in 1899 in Texas comes true when Bailey encounters a bear in the mountains of Montana.

"After a young roadrunner is bitten by a rattlesnake, his feet swell to an enormous size. At first this seems to be a handicap as he stumbles around the desert and nearly ends up as a meal for a coyote. After taking the advice of a wise old tortoise, though, the roadrunner, now called Thunderfoot, undergoes an exercise program, making his legs and wings much stronger than the average roadrunner's. The newly pumped-up Thunderfoot hammers the local...

A posthumous letter referring to buried treasure convinces Gary that his grandfather did not die a natural death and, with his friend Brian, he sets out to find both the treasure and his grandfather's killer.

Brother and sister cats are taken in by a family and learn the pleasures and dangers of living alongside humans.

After moving to the country, thirteen-year-old Brad, who has always wanted a dog, adopts a motherless coyote.