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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers!
Golden retrievers are one of the most popular dog breeds in America. Readers will learn all about them, from why they are so beloved to how to care for them, in this fun book.
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"Best in Show meets The Hating Game in this sweet, funny rom-com that takes the uber-competitiveness of dog show pageant moms to a whole new level. Ruby Taylor thought her days of high-stakes competition were over, until she joins the dog show circuit to get lazy golden retriever Wheezy into shape...and falls head over heels for a handsome veterinarian who won't stop getting under her skin"--
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Become an expert on Golden Retrievers
Golden Retrievers are among the friendliest, most intelligent, most popular dogs-no wonder you've made this excellent choice of breed for your own "best friend"! Golden Retrievers For Dummies will show you how to select, train, raise, and live happily with your lifelong companion.
In this book, you'll find all the need-to-know information about your Golden. From puppy years to senior living, grooming to feeding,...
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One of Germany's most auspicious contributions to the dog world is the impressive Giant Schnauzer, a purebred dog of unmistakable style and superb working ability. Recognizable for prominent facial furnishings beard, eye brows, and moustache his blunt-wedged muzzle, and his solid, muscular "giant" stature, the Giant Schnauzer is the largest of the Fatherland's three schnauzer breeds. The breed today enjoys a true international following stretching...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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"Simple text and full color photographs introduce beginning readers to the characteristics of the dog breed golden retrievers . Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--Provided by publisher.
7) Ginger
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Dog diaries volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Ginger the golden retriever narrates the story of her life, from her birth in a puppy mill through the various people who have "owned" her.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Learn all about playful and gentle golden retrievers! This book captivates young readers through simple and easy-to-read text combined with vibrant, full-color photographs. Plus, quick stats sections and bolded glossary terms invite readers to zoom in and learn more.--
9) Puppy kisses
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These adorable service puppies are matchmakers in the making ... Dawn Vasquez never takes life too seriously. But when she rescues a golden retriever named Gigi, Dawn begins to imagine what it'd be like to settle down and let someone rely on her for a change. Unfortunately, Adam Dearborn-a handsome, hopelessly buttoned-up cattle rancher in need of a guide dog-has also fallen in love with the little ball of fluff and stubbornly insists that no other...
10) The retrievers
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Sterling
Pub. Date
[2003]
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English
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The Lowry family is in transition--they've recently moved from the city to a small town, and they're having a hard time adjusting. Just when their spirts need lifting, they find themselves "adopted" by a stray golden retriever named Pilot. It turns out that Pilot is not only very clever and very lovable, she's also very pregnant!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
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Amy Redwing has dedicated her life to the southern California organization she founded to rescue abandoned and endangered golden retrievers. No one is surprised when Amy risks her life to save Nickie, nor when she takes the female golden into her home. The bond between Amy and Nickie is immediate and uncanny. Even her two other goldens, Fred and Ethel, recognize Nickie as special, a natural alpha. But the instant joy Nickie brings is shadowed by a...
15) Needled to death
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"As a colleague of deputy coroner Mattie Winston, social worker Clothilde Hildy Schneider is no stranger to unsolved murders at Sorenson General Hospital. Except this time, it's up to her to crack the case . . . Motivated by her own difficult past, Hildy has an unparalleled commitment to supporting troubled clients through grief and addiction in Sorenson, Wisconsin. But when a distraught group therapy member reveals disturbing details about her late...
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Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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She arrived with her name, Trixie. I joked sometimes that it sounded more like a stripper than a dog. But if it sounded more like a stripper than a dog, it sounded more like an elf or a fairy than a stripper. Elves and fairies are magical beings , and so was she. A heartwarming memoir of a very special dog.
17) The finders
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"Jeffrey B. Burton's The Finders marks the beginning of a fast-paced new mystery series featuring a heroic golden retriever cadaver dog named Vira and her handler, Mason Reid. Mason "Mace" Reid lives on the outskirts of Chicago and specializes in human remains detection. He trains dogs to hunt for the dead. Reid's coming off a taxing year-mourning the death of a beloved springer spaniel as well as the dissolution of his marriage. He adopts a rescue...
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This book is a a work of narrative nonfiction that chronicles the author's first year with her Golden Retreiver, Scout, based on her blog of the same name from The New York Times. Is is an instructive and entertaining chronicle of a puppy's first year, by the author, the managing editor of The New York Times. One summer day, she brought home a nine-week-old golden retriever named Scout. Over the following year, as she and her husband raised their...
19) Lily
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The puppy place. Main series volume 61
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Meeting an untrained English cream golden retriever while on a beach vacation at the Fair Harbor Inn, Charles Peterson and his pet-fostering family work to teach the rambunctious pup what she needs to learn to find a permanent home. Includes tips for travelling with your dog.
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After the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, Susannah Charleson was so impressed by the newspaper photo of an exhausted handler and his search-and-rescue dog that she decided to train a dog of her own. A dog lover and pilot with search experience herself, Charleson got Puzzle, a strong, bright Golden Retriever, who from the start, exhibited a unique aptitude for search-and-rescue work. But the puppy's willfulness challenged even Susannah, who had raised...
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