Valerie Hobbs
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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
During a summer visit, twelve-year-old Lucy must come to terms with both her grandmother's failing memory and how her mentally-challenged neighbor will impact her popularity when both enter the same middle school in the fall.
3) 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.
7) Defiance
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
While vacationing in the country, eleven-year-old Toby, a cancer patient, learns some important lessons about living and dying from an elderly poet and her cow.