Mary Casanova
2) Grace
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Grace likes having a plan but she must find a way to be flexible and open to new ideas when she goes to Paris with her mother and has trouble getting along with her cousin, while at home her friends start the business she proposed without her.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Grace is crushed to learn that her grandparents' bakery might close after thirty years and wonders how her own business, which they inspired, can survive if theirs cannot, but she and her friends use their talents and newly-acquired business skills to try to save the day.
4) McKenna
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Seattle fourth-grader McKenna Brooks, who lives for gymnastics, struggles with school work until Josie, a tutor confined to a wheelchair, helps her with reading comprehension and much more.
5) Chrissa
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Chrissa Maxwell moves to a new school in the middle of the year, and the girls in her fourth-grade class are decidedly unfriendly. On the advice of her grandmother, Chrissa tries first to be nice, and then to ignore the mean girls. But they just won't quit, and when the teasing turns into serious bullying, Chrissa must find the courage to stand strong and speak out.
Author
Series
Girl of the year. Grace volume 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by her grandparents' bakery and her recent visit to Paris, nine-year-old Grace leads her friends in starting La Petite Patisserie, making and selling French pastries at school and special events, but they soon discover that starting a new business is not always easy--or fun.
9) Some dog!
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A stray dog moves into George's formerly peaceful home, dazzling the man and woman of the house with lively tricks and antics that just leave George exhausted.
10) One-dog sleigh
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A girl hitches her dog to her sleigh one morning, only to be insistently joined by a series of animals, large and small.
11) Some cat!
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When Violet the cat is adopted she has trouble sharing her new kingdom with the family dogs until they save her from some home invaders.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When outlaw Dirk Yeller arrives in Cowtown looking for something to take away his cat-scratch fever, young Sam, whose pa says he is "a world-a-trouble and curious as a tomcat, " knows just what this dangerous and jittery criminal needs to calm him down.
15) One-dog canoe
Author
Language
English
Description
A girl and her dog set out in their canoe one morning, only to be insistently joined by a series of animals, large and small.
16) Moose tracks
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Seth, the son of a game warden, tries to save an orphaned moose calf from poachers.
Author
Series
Dog watch volume 1
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First Aladdin Paperbacks edition.
Language
English
Description
The dogs of Pembrook, Minnesota investigate when one of the town's dogs mysteriously disappears.
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