Maribeth Boelts
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Sixth-graders Russell and Shawn, poor and picked on, work together scooping dog droppings to earn money for a Rottweiler puppy to protect them from bullies, but when they learn the puppies' owner is running an illegal dog-fighting ring, they are torn about how to respond.
8) Pupunzel
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Pupunzel is locked in a tower by a witch but the cocker spaniel puppy and her family are determined to set things right in this twist on Rapunzel.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Receiving a giant puffy purple coat from his fashionable friend, Beetle, as a birthday gift, Stick Bug unhappily accompanies Beetle all over town before finding the courage to admit that he does not really care for the flashy coat or the attention it brings.
10) Those shoes
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Jeremy, who longs to have the black high tops that everyone at school seems to have but his grandmother cannot afford, is excited when he sees them for sale in a thrift shop and decides to buy them even though they are the wrong size.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Kaia is the brave type. Like hottest-hot-pepper brave. But there is one thing that scares her: BEES! And right now, thousands of bees live on her roof because Kaia's dad is a beekeeper. But only he goes on the roof, not Kaia--unless she can find a way to be the brave girl she always says she is."--
13) Sleeping Bootsie
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Formats
Description
A former stray, Bootsie is the beloved royal cat until a spell cast by a mean fairy causes her to fall into a deep sleep, and only "her happiest sound" will awaken her.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Description
For soccer games Sierra rides a bus out of the city to fields that are nicer than the "lot" in her neighborhood, but so her auntie can be at her last game, she asks Coach Marco if the team might play in her neighborhood on a day her aunt does not work.