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1) Sheep
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
After a fire destroys the farm where he was born, a young border collie acquires a series of owners and learns about life as he seeks a home and longs to fulfill his life's purpose of shepherding sheep. Finally, he arrives at the Good Shepherd Home for Boys, where he finds a friend in Luke, who is also alone in the world and looking for a home.
3) Nala
Author
Series
Puppy place. Main series volume 41
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"Charles and Lizzie Peterson love puppies. Their family fosters these young dogs, giving them love and proper care, until they can find the perfect forever home. Charles can't catch a break. He's never gotten into trouble in class before. Then he spotted that stray dog running around his school. Now it seems like everything he does lands him in the principal's office. Will Charles be able to find that collie pup and give her a forever home?"--Back...
5) Road Trip
Author
Series
Road trip volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
A summer adventure you'll never forget, from a beloved Newbery Honor winning author!
Dad and Ben haven't been getting along lately, and Dad hopes a road trip to rescue a border collie will help them reconnect. But Ben is on to Dad's scheme, and he's got ideas of his own. Like inviting his buddy, Theo, who's sure to get into fun (and trouble) along the way. And if Dad wants a family road trip, then the family dog, Atticus, should get to come,...
Dad and Ben haven't been getting along lately, and Dad hopes a road trip to rescue a border collie will help them reconnect. But Ben is on to Dad's scheme, and he's got ideas of his own. Like inviting his buddy, Theo, who's sure to get into fun (and trouble) along the way. And if Dad wants a family road trip, then the family dog, Atticus, should get to come,...
6) Field trip
Author
Series
Road trip volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
Ben and his twin classmates, Charlotte and Jacob, are missing a school field trip so Ben's father takes them, his new apprentice Brig, and the dogs on an adventure. Ben manages to try out for a hockey academy against his parents' wishes and the twins turn the road trip into a learning experience.
7) Nop's trials
Author
Pub. Date
1984
Description
When the sheep dog, Nop, is stolen from Lewis Burkholder's farm and sold to a ruthless dog handler, Lewis struggles to recover his dog.
8) Flash
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Charles and Lizzie Peterson are visiting their cousins in the country when they find an abandoned border collie puppy. Flash loves to run and chase, so Charles and Lizzie know not just any home will work for this puppy. Can they find a forever home that's just right for Flash?
9) Nop's Hope
Author
Pub. Date
[1998], c1994
Description
A grief-stricken young woman takes to the road, joining the sheepdog trial circuit with her faithful border collie in this moving follow-up novel to Donald McCaig's modern classic, Nop's Trials After her husband and daughter are killed in a car accident, Penny Burkeholder leaves her Shenandoah Valley home with her eighteen-month-old border collie, Hope, the only friend she has left in the world. Together, they make their way across the country in...
11) Kizzy Ann Stamps
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"In 1963, as Kizzy Ann prepares for her first year at an integrated school, she worries about the color of her skin, the scar running from the corner of her right eye to the tip of her smile, and whether anyone at the white school will like her. She writes letters to her new teacher in a clear, insistent voice, stating her troubles and asking questions with startling honesty. The new teacher is supportive, but not everyone feels the same, so there...
12) Wolf
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Jack has found a home and a purpose on a farm, keeping a flock of sheep safe from coyotes and training pups to do the same, but now he and his boy, Luke, must face a rabid wolf that threatens them all.
13) Just like Floss
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Floss the sheep dog has a litter of puppies and Floss's owners want to keep the one that is just like Floss.
14) Floss
Author
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Even after she becomes a skilled and hardworking sheepdog, a playful border collie never forgets the joy of playing with happy children.
15) Saving Skye
Series
Puppy patrol volume 7
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Skye, old Mr. Bradshaw's beautiful collie, needs a new home. Neil and Emily are sure she would fit in perfectly at King Street Kennels.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Description
You're a dog: a Border Collie. You're dognapped and taken hundreds of miles away. What do you do when you escape and make your way home? You herd a few sheep, and mend a few lives. Follow Angelo as he takes the long road home through the beautiful landscapes of New Mexico and Colorado.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When a friendly but timid dog keeps showing up at the park to play, Tim and his Grandad want to bring him home but there are huge obstacles in their way, including Tim's sister's allergy and the dog's current owners.
Author
Series
Dog chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
In Cosham, England, in 1917, Darling, a mischievous collie, must leave the children who love her when she is chosen for training as a mercy dog, seeking out injured soldiers on the battlefield and leading medics to them.