Furry or slimy, scaly or silly, our pets have one thing in common -- they don't like to be teased!

"Peaks Island, Maine, vibrates with its own special magic, a unique flow to life that knits together the small community that calls it home. The people, the animals, and even the houses have a charm and personality all their own. Just ask Rocky Pelligrino. Devastated by her husband Bob's sudden death, she found hope thanks to a relentlessly loyal black Lab named Cooper. Warm friends and a new job--as the island's animal control warden--have helped...

A Horse in the House? Things are hard for eleven-year-old Yonder. Her mother died and her father has sunk into sadness. She doesn't have a friend to her name . . . except for Dirt, the Shetland pony next door. Dirt has problems of his own. He's overweight, he's always in trouble, and his owner is the mean Miss Enid, who doesn't have the patience for a pony's natural curiosity. His only friend is Yonder, the scrawny girl next door. So when Miss Enid...

At Animal Ark, Mandy Hope helps her parents treat animals of all shapes and sizes. Even outside the clinic, she can't resist helping any animal in need. This Christmas, a pair of foxes need all the help they can get.

Mandy and James discover a mother bear and her cubs while they are camping in Arkansas, but as she follows the bears on their cross-country trek back to their own territory, Mandy wonders if she can help the bears overcome the many dangers on the way.

At Animal Ark, Mandy Hope helps her parents treat animals of all shapes and sizes. Even outside the clinic, Mandy can't resist helping any animal in need. Mandy and James are excited about their school trip to an old mine. While underground, Mandy begins to imagine how difficult life must have been for the ponies that used to work down there. Suddenly, she spots eyes gleaming in the darkness, watching her. But James can't see a thing! The very next...

Rafe Khatchadorian is horrified that because of a missed science assignment he has to go to summer school; but instead of three weeks in a school room he finds himself a volunteer at Bushytail animal refuge, which is really hard, smelly work--and somehow he needs to use the experience (and the help of a girl he meets there) to produce a first class science report.

At the Heartland horse farm in the hills of Virginia, Amy has a difficult time helping a horse that escaped a stable fire blaze.

Mandy and James are in this year's school holiday show. During the performance, Honey the hamster escapes from her cage. She's last seen scurrying out into the snow under a holly bush. Mandy knows Honey must be found soon - or she'll freeze to death! Will the show be able to go on?

"In this early chapter book, Cricket and her friends rally the town of Pincher Creek to save migrating bats being killed by newly installed wind turbines."--