Best Friends

LeVar explores how seeing-eye dogs are trained to act as eyes for the blind and meet a young girl who has spent a year raising a dog that will be trained to help a visually impaired person

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Best Friends Feature Book:

Best Friends

Katy feels lonely and afraid when her best friend goes away for the summer and leaves her alone. She finds a dog that becomes a best friend and learns about the live and care pets need.

Author:Jan Brett
Illustrator: Jan Brett
Publisher: Putnam

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The Story of Mrs. Lovewright and Purrless Her Cat

The Story of Mrs. Lovewright and Purrless Her Cat

Mrs. Lovewright is always feeling chilly, she is sure that a cat is just what she needs in order to be cozy when she sits before her fireplace in the evenings. But then she acquires a cat that has a mind of its own, a cat who will not, no matter what, be cozy with Mrs. Lovewright.

Author: Lore Segal
Illustrator: Paul O. Zelinsky
Publisher: Random House

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A Gift for Tia Rosa

A Gift for Tia Rosa

Little Carmela is close to her elderly neighbor and saddened by her illness and death, but she finds a way to express her love when Tía Rosa's grandchild is born. Tía Rosa was knitting a baby blanket for her new granddaughter and she taught Carmela how to knit. Carmela realizes that finishing the baby blanket for the new baby will be a gift for both the baby and Tía Rosa.

Author: Karen T. Taha
Illustrator: Dee deRosa.
Publisher: Bantam

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The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy

The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy

When Petey the puppy decides that he wants a boy for Christmas, he discovers that he must go out and find one on his own. He isn't very successful until one evening he happens across a home for boys and receives not one, but fifty boys for Christmas.

Author: Jane Thayer
Illustrator: Lisa McCue
Publisher: Morrow

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