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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy ... Came to buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight.
2) Ginger Pye
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The Thanksgiving Day disappearance of a new puppy named Ginger and the appearance of a mysterious man in a mustard yellow hat bring excitement into the lives of the Pye children.
3) Shiloh
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When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
5) Stone Fox
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Little Willie hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dog sled race he enters.
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Shiloh quartet volume 3
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Sixth-grader Marty and his family try to help their rough neighbor, Judd Travers, change his mean ways, even though their West Virginia community continues to expect the worst of him.
7) Sounder
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A young Black boy learns the pain of humiliation and anger when his father is given an unjust jail sentence for stealing a ham from a white man. Learning to read and to discover that things do not die but become part of other things brings the youngster new hope.
11) Watchers
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Out of a government laboratory so sinsister and secret that its very name cannot be whispered and into the life of certain good and evil people come two escaped creatures, one murderous and one benign and both "changed, changed utterly" from the ordinary animals they once were. To the scientists who fashioned them they are the end products of experiments in genetic engineering and enhanced intelligence and they want them back. To the people who encounter...
12) Bark, George
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George the puppy's mother is in for a big surprise when she takes him to the veterinarian to find out why he does not bark.
15) The good dog
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McKinley, a malamute, is torn between the domestic world of his human family and the wild world of Lupin, a wolf that is trying to recruit dogs to replenish the dwindling wolf pack.
16) Bad dog
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A little girl gets a cat as a new pet but insists it's a dog, even if it doesn't act very dog-like.
18) Old Yeller
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A timeless American classic and one of the most beloved children?s books ever written, Old Yeller is a Newbery Honor Book that explores the poignant and unforgettable bond between a boy and the stray dog who becomes his loyal friend.
19) Finders keepers
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Two dogs each claim a bone they have found and ask passersby for help in deciding ownership.