Wasatch County Library

After Madeline Finn trains her dog Star to pass the test to become a therapy dog, she and Star visit Walker Oaks, a retirement community, and Madline meets an sad elderly man in a wheelchair and thinks of what she and Star can do to help him.

In this pathbreaking guide, two of the world's most popular and trusted pet care advocates reveal new science to teach us how to delay aging and provide a long, happy, healthy life for our canine companions. Like their human counterparts, dogs have been getting sicker and dying prematurely over the past few decades. Why? Scientists are beginning to understand that the chronic diseases afflicting humans-cancer, obesity, diabetes, organ degeneration,...

"Arfy wants to prove just how good he is at smelling by tracking down the stinky smell going through his neighborhood"--

"Eleven-year-old Alex knows that starting middle school will be a big change, and for an autistic person, change can be terrifying. He is sure that having a friend by his side will help. But how can he make one? Alex devises a plan to impress the kids atschool by winning a trophy at the PAWS Dog Show with his trusty sidekick, Kevin the cockapoo. This should be a walk in the park, right? If only. It turns out that finding a friend is harder than Alex...

"Give thanks to every human's best friend in this sweet and inclusive ode to dogs of all kinds--with an emphasis on service dogs."--

"A look at all that dogs do for us from the extraordinary to the everyday, as told by a dog on a walk with his owner"--

Young Victor conducts a science experiment that will bring his dog Sparky back to life, only to face unintended, sometimes monstrous consequences.

Visiting an uncle rumored to have the same madness as their ancestor Victor Frankenstein, Kat discovers that her uncle is a quiet scientist interested in building robots before a lab accident involving a fluffy dog triggers strange events.

Elsie enjoys hanging out with her younger sister Rosemont, but the one thing Rosemont does that drives her big sister mad is copy everything Elsie does.

"For one spirited little puppy, winter means romping in the snow, birds to chase, fragrant evergreen trees, and joy, joy, joy! Then again, winter also means--oddly unfriendly deer? Millions of little lights? Contorting inflatable snowmen? Wait, what? If this is all winter, too, then winter is kind of weird"--