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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!

Alexia is delighted when Mr. Cooper brings in Bob, a hognose snake, as class pet, but when Bob keels over, is Andrea's toy poodle or Alexia's neglect to blame?

When a boy is not allowed to have a dog, he teaches his fish to do the things he wanted a dog to do.

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.

Clark the Shark is excited to adopt Lulu the dogfish, but he soon learns that there is more to owning a pet than teaching her tricks and feeding her treats.

Oliver the tortoise looks back on his happy life as he wonders why his pet human, Ike, who he has had for eighty years, has stopped visiting the garden.

From beloved author Cynthia Rylant and illustrator Mike Austin comes a colorful and quirky picture book about five fish who find unexpected friendship when some new additions to their tank shake things up!Henny, Penny, Lenny, Denny and Mike are five fish friends who love everything about life in the fish tankexcept for clean-the-tank day and the snail that lives with them, who they mostly ignore. But one day, when they get an enchanting new fairy-tale...

"Join a brilliant, but stubborn, parrot as he endures the banality of the pet store before being purchased by an equally insufferable young man. But while things between parrot and owner get off to a rocky start, the delights of having a pet (or human) bring them both around in the end"-Provided by the publisher.

"A little boy would love to have a dog. It could be big, small, ugly, or cute, as long as it's his best friend. One rainy afternoon, there's a cat at the door. She doesn't wag her tail, she can't do tricks, and she doesn't even like dog treats. But maybe a cat isn't so bad after all?"--Book jacket flap.

As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's nearly constant companion, Fala the Scottish terrier was in the unique position to witness the workings of the U.S. presidency. And now for the first time, the sassy Scottie shares his story with readers--from his idyllic puppyhood spent chasing squirrels through his adulthood spent chasing dignitaries around the world with FDR!