Dog diaries

Based on a true story but told in a fictional form, Buddy, a German Shepherd dog, describes her life as the first guide dog trained to serve the blind. You will learn about the history and training of guide dogs for the Seeing Eye School and the Lady Boss, Mrs. Eustis, who started it all because she thought it was a criminal waste for dogs as strong of character and as intelligent and energetic as German Shepherds to lie on a rug before a fireplace...

Small, feisty Siberian husky Togo—the overlooked sled-dog hero of the 1925 serum run to Nome—sets the record straight in Dog Diaries #4! When a diptheria epidemic breaks out in isolated Nome, Alaska, in January 1925, the only way to get life-saving serum to the town is by using dog-sled relay teams. Twenty teams participate, and the dog who inevitably gets credit for saving the town is Balto, lead dog on the final team which delivered...

"George Washington's foxhound Sweetlips narrates the story of her master's transformation from farmer to Father of our Country"--

Fala, the Scottish terrier, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's pet, shares his story with readers, from his puppyhood spent chasing squirrels through his adulthood spent chasing dignitaries around the world with FDR.

A dachshund loses a leg and finds his life's calling—as a therapy dog!
 
Scrappy dachshund Rolf von Noodle may be missing a hind leg, but he's got attitude and can-do spirit to spare! If anything, his tripod status gives him something special: real empathy for people overcoming physical challenges. And as his owner Mindy discovers, it makes him an ideal choice to become a therapy dog. With realistic black-and-white...

"Susan--the corgi presented to Princess Elizabeth on her eighteenth birthday--reveals secrets of life in Buckingham Palace"--

Sunny, a pampered Pekingese dog, narrates the tale of the voyage and sinking of the Titanic.