Synopsis: This is a children’s fiction book about a ten- year old boy named Billy Colman. He lives in the Ozark Mountains of Oklahoma with his mother, father, and three younger sisters. Billy has always wanted a pair of red-bone coonhounds for coon hunting. After saving two years for them, Billy walks twenty miles to …
This is a fictional book about a swan named Louis who was born mute and learned how to play the trumpet to communicate. Synopsis: This book starts when Sam Beaver, an eleven-year-old boy, on a camping trip in Canada with his father, sees a male swan and female swan and discovers the nest they have …
This is a fictional book about Wilbur, the smallest out of a litter of piglets on the Arable farm. Synopsis: Wilbur is the smallest of a litter of piglets on the Arable farm and is given to Fern to raise, and Fern quickly bonds with Wilbur and treats him as her pet. However, Wilbur grows …
This is a children’s fiction book about Stuart, a boy who looks like a mouse despite being a human child. Synopsis: Stuart Little is born to the Little family in New York City- Mr. Little, Mrs. Little, and their other son George, and their cat Snowbell who dislikes Stuart because he knows Stuart is part …
This is a Children’s Fiction book about Mr. Popper, a house painter who receives a penguin in the mail. Synopsis: Mr. Popper is a house painter of little money living with his wife and two children in Stillwater, Minnesota. He is happy but also restless and longs for adventure but dreams of traveling to faraway …
This is a fiction book about Captain Ahab’s quest for revenge against Moby Dick, the giant sperm whale that bit off his leg on his ship’s previous voyage. Synopsis: This book is narrated by Ishmael. He goes to sea because he craved adventure, and travels from Manhattan to New Bedford, Massachusetts. Ishmael shares a bed …
Synopsis: The book starts out in 1897 on a ranch in Santa Clara, California. Buck is stolen from his home and family, and sold into service as a sled dog into Alaska. He is half St. Bernard, and half shepherd. He becomes more primitive and wilder, and is forced to fight to survive and dominate …
This book is about a cat named Dewey who became the cat of the Spencer Public Library in Spencer, Iowa. When he was only a few weeks old, he was found stuffed into the return book slot at the Spencer Public Library. He was discovered by Vicki Myron, the library director.
This book is about a rescue Pitbull named Oogy. The book starts out with the rescue of Oogy by Larry Levin in 2002. He first meets Oogy when he is putting his cat Buzzy to sleep at the Ardmore Animal Hospital outside Philadelphia. Oogy had been in a dog fight and was missing half an ear and had half his face covered in scar tissue. He had been used as bait for fighting dogs.