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Entries Tagged as 'Animal Shelters'

The Magic Squad and the Dog of Great Potential

December 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By JENNIFER GANNETT The Magic Squad and the Dog of Great Potential is a well-written, engaging story of a boy and a dog — both with great potential.  The dog of great potential in this book is called Trane, who is a rescue being fostered by ten year old Calvin Hastings’s (the boy of [...]

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Now Hiring: White House Dog

September 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN Loosely based on Malia and Sasha Obama’s quest for a canine companion, Now Hiring boasts a simple storyline where the girls take the dog search into their own hands. They fashion a homemade “Now Hiring” sign for the front lawn and receive half a dozen candidates on a particularly busy [...]

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The Berenstain Bears’ New Kitten

September 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By JENNIFER GANNETT In The Berenstain Bears’ New Kitten, the popular series tackles the subject of stray animals. When Brother finds a kitten in a pond and brings her home, the whole family becomes involved in cleaning and comforting the animal. The Bear family elects to keep the kitten, but not before they take [...]

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Cherry and Olive

August 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN Move over Nikki McClure fans, there’s a new hot shot artist-author on the Vegbooks blog. He’s Parisian. A little dark. A little gothic. And he has my heart. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Benjamin Lacombe. Cherry, who doesn’t actually like the fruit she’s named after, is a plump, alienated child who [...]

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