Bella's rules by Guest, Elissa Haden 

BTSB Prebound(Dial Books for Young Readers, 2013)

BTSB #: 406085 Available

Dewey: EAges: 3-5   
AR: 2.1 LG

Genres: Family Life Animals

Subjects: Human behavior - Fiction Dogs - Training - Fiction Animal babies - Fiction Family life - Fiction

Summary: Bella knows the family rules but lives by her own, as well, causing her behavior to be "too wild, too rude, and too risky" until Granny brings her a puppy with similar problems.

Biscuit's new trick [My first I can read book, Biscuit the puppy]by Capucilli, Alyssa Satin 

BTSB Prebound(HarperCollins, 2000)

BTSB #: 185841 Available

Dewey: EAges: 3-5   
AR: 1 LG RC: 1.5 K-2 Lexile: 160

Genres: Animals

Subjects: Dogs - Training - Fiction

Summary: A puppy does all sorts of tricks in the process of learning the one his master is trying to teach him.

Biscuit's new trick [Biscuit the puppy, My first I can read book]by Capucilli, Alyssa Satin 

Paperback(HarperCollins, 2000)

BTSB #: 185895 Temp OS

Dewey: EAges: 3-5   
AR: 1 LG RC: 1.5 K-2 Lexile: 160

Genres:

Subjects: Dogs - Training - Fiction

Summary: A puppy does all sorts of tricks in the process of learning the one his master is trying to teach him.

Henry and Mudge take the big test : the tenth book of their adventures [Ready-to-read, Henry and Mudge books]by Rylant, Cynthia 

BTSB Prebound(Aladdin Paperbacks, 1996)

BTSB #: 774065 Available

Dewey: EAges: 5-7   
AR: 2.4 LG RC: 2.1 K-2 Lexile: 480 F&P: J

Genres: Animals Chapter Books

Subjects: Dogs - Training - Fiction

Summary: After eight weeks at Papp's Dog School, Henry's dog Mudge earns a certificate and lots of liver treats.

Lila and Hadley by Keplinger, Kody 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2020)

BTSB #: 514799 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.3 MG Lexile: 690

Genres: Family Life Animals

Subjects: Pit bull terriers - Fiction Dogs - Training - Fiction Retinitis pigmentosa - Fiction Blind - Fiction People with disabilities - Fiction Sisters - Fiction Mother-daughter relationship - Fiction Anger - Fiction Kentucky - Fiction

Summary: 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 into her forever home, and just maybe Lila can help Hadley deal with her own problems.

Madeline Finn and the therapy dog by Papp, Lisa 

BTSB Prebound(Peachtree, 2020)

BTSB #: 698668 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
AR: 2.6 LG Lexile: 510

Genres: Animals

Subjects: Dogs - Training - Fiction Psychiatric service dogs - Fiction Retirement communities - Fiction Human-animal relationship - Fiction

Summary: Madeline Finn hopes Star can become a therapy dog. But first he needs to pass his tests and Walker Oaks, a retirement community, is where his tests will take place.

Pip and the paw of friendship [Puppy academy]by Lewis, Gill 

BTSB Prebound(Holt, 2017)

BTSB #: 568467 Available

Dewey: FAges: 7-9   


Genres: Adventure Fiction Humorous Fiction Animals

Subjects: Dogs - Training - Fiction Service dogs - Fiction Human-animal relationship - Fiction Animal babies - Fiction

Summary: A story about a puppy who is training to be a service dog--and the young human girl he befriends.

Raising Lumie by Bauer, Joan 

Paperback New title.(Viking, 2021)

BTSB #: 097218 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 3.9 MG Lexile: 590

Genres: Family Life Animals

Subjects: Dogs - Training - Fiction Guide dogs - Fiction Animal babies - Fiction Sisters - Fiction Orphans - Fiction Grief - Fiction

Summary: Newly orphaned and living with the half-sister she hardly knows, twelve-year-old Olive rediscovers her hope when she starts training a guide dog puppy.

Raising Lumie by Bauer, Joan 

BTSB Prebound(Viking, 2020)

BTSB #: 097221 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 3.9 MG Lexile: 590

Genres: Family Life Animals

Subjects: Dogs - Training - Fiction Guide dogs - Fiction Animal babies - Fiction Sisters - Fiction Orphans - Fiction Grief - Fiction

Summary: Newly orphaned and living with the half-sister she hardly knows, twelve-year-old Olive rediscovers her hope when she starts training a guide dog puppy.

Sled Dog School by Johnson, Terry Lynn 

Paperback(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019)

BTSB #: 495981 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.4 MG RC: 3.8 3-5 Lexile: 660

Genres:

Subjects: Dogsledding - Fiction Sled dogs - Fiction Dogs - Training - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Business enterprises - Fiction Alaska - Fiction

Summary: When eleven-year-old Matt must set up a business to save his failing math grade, he overcomes his self-doubt and also gains two friends along the way.

Sled Dog School by Johnson, Terry Lynn 

BTSB Prebound(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017)

BTSB #: 496000 Available

Dewey: FAges: 7-10   
AR: 4.4 MG RC: 3.8 3-5 Lexile: 660

Genres: Animals

Subjects: Dogsledding - Fiction Sled dogs - Fiction Dogs - Training - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Business enterprises - Fiction Alaska - Fiction

Summary: When eleven-year-old Matt must set up a business to save his failing math grade, he overcomes his self-doubt and also gains two friends along the way.

Stay! by Latimer, Alex 

BTSB Prebound(Peachtree, 2015)

BTSB #: 545691 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
AR: 2.5 LG RC: 3.2 K-2 Lexile: 580 AD F&P: M

Genres: Humorous Fiction Family Life Animals

Subjects: Dogs - Training - Fiction Vacations - Fiction Grandfathers - Fiction Humorous fiction

Summary: Ben thinks his dog, Buster, is the best in the world but his parents are not as sure, so when they go on vacation Buster must stay with Grampa who, guided by many notes from Ben and using his own dog-training methods, manages to get Buster under control--mostly.

What the dog said by Reisfeld, Randi 

BTSB Prebound(Bloomsbury, 2012)

BTSB #: 746272 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.7 MG RC: 4.3 6-8 Lexile: 690

Genres: Animals Family Life

Subjects: Grief - Fiction Dogs - Training - Fiction Human-animal communication - Fiction Fathers - Fiction Sisters - Fiction

Summary: Shortly after their police officer father is killed in the line of duty, thirteen-year-old Grace's older sister decides to adopt a dog to train as a service dog for a handicapped child so that she can write about it for her college applications, but, true to form, it is the grief-stricken Grace who ends up taking responsibility for the dog.