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In Your Dog Is Your Mirror, dog trainer Kevin Behan proposes a radical new model for understanding canine behavior: a dog’s behavior and emotion, indeed its very cognition, are driven by our emotion. The dog doesn’t respond to its owner based on what the owner thinks, says, or does; it responds to what the owner feels. And in this way, dogs can actually put people back in touch with their own emotions. Behan was originally trained under the dominance...

A snail the size of a pony, afraid that he will wind up in a circus, or worse, sets out to become someone's pet.

Nikki has to hide seven ADORKABLE puppies from two parents, one nosy little sister, an entire middle school, and ... one mean girl out for revenge, Mackenzie Hollister. If anyone can do it, it's Nikki... but not without some hilarious challenges along the way!

A young girl who loves dogs discovers that taking care of a real puppy involves a great deal of work and love.

Jack's mother agrees that he may have a pet, but when he suggests everything from an elephant to a tyrranosaurus rex, she must explain why each would be less than ideal.

Jimmy's boa constrictor creates havoc in his gym class and his antics leads to the formation of an unusual basketball team.

A rhyming, onomatopoeic story invites little readers to interact with a sequence of animals by pretending to pet a cat, wash a puppy, brush a horse's mane and more by tapping, stroking and turning lap-sized pages. By the award-winning author of My Blue Is Happy.

Seven-year-old Pinky, a confirmed dog lover, has a change of heart after his family's new pet kitten pounces on his foot in the middle of the night.

"Sophia is happy to have Noodle, her One True Desire, yet her new pet comes with two giraffe-sized problems"--

The continuing adventures of Max and his pet friends, as they live their secret lives after their owners leave them home for the day.