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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.
3) Road Trip
Author
Series
Road trip volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
A summer adventure you'll never forget, from a beloved Newbery Honor winning author!
Dad and Ben haven't been getting along lately, and Dad hopes a road trip to rescue a border collie will help them reconnect. But Ben is on to Dad's scheme, and he's got ideas of his own. Like inviting his buddy, Theo, who's sure to get into fun (and trouble) along the way. And if Dad wants a family road trip, then the family dog, Atticus, should get to come,...
Dad and Ben haven't been getting along lately, and Dad hopes a road trip to rescue a border collie will help them reconnect. But Ben is on to Dad's scheme, and he's got ideas of his own. Like inviting his buddy, Theo, who's sure to get into fun (and trouble) along the way. And if Dad wants a family road trip, then the family dog, Atticus, should get to come,...
4) Field trip
Author
Series
Road trip volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
Ben and his twin classmates, Charlotte and Jacob, are missing a school field trip so Ben's father takes them, his new apprentice Brig, and the dogs on an adventure. Ben manages to try out for a hockey academy against his parents' wishes and the twins turn the road trip into a learning experience.
5) Nop's trials
Author
Pub. Date
1984
Description
When the sheep dog, Nop, is stolen from Lewis Burkholder's farm and sold to a ruthless dog handler, Lewis struggles to recover his dog.
6) Nop's Hope
Author
Pub. Date
[1998], c1994
Description
A grief-stricken young woman takes to the road, joining the sheepdog trial circuit with her faithful border collie in this moving follow-up novel to Donald McCaig's modern classic, Nop's Trials After her husband and daughter are killed in a car accident, Penny Burkeholder leaves her Shenandoah Valley home with her eighteen-month-old border collie, Hope, the only friend she has left in the world. Together, they make their way across the country in...
7) Flash
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Charles and Lizzie Peterson are visiting their cousins in the country when they find an abandoned border collie puppy. Flash loves to run and chase, so Charles and Lizzie know not just any home will work for this puppy. Can they find a forever home that's just right for Flash?
8) 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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"In 1963, as Kizzy Ann prepares for her first year at an integrated school, she worries about the color of her skin, the scar running from the corner of her right eye to the tip of her smile, and whether anyone at the white school will like her. She writes letters to her new teacher in a clear, insistent voice, stating her troubles and asking questions with startling honesty. The new teacher is supportive, but not everyone feels the same, so there...
10) Just like Floss
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Floss the sheep dog has a litter of puppies and Floss's owners want to keep the one that is just like Floss.
11) Floss
Author
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Even after she becomes a skilled and hardworking sheepdog, a playful border collie never forgets the joy of playing with happy children.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Description
You're a dog: a Border Collie. You're dognapped and taken hundreds of miles away. What do you do when you escape and make your way home? You herd a few sheep, and mend a few lives. Follow Angelo as he takes the long road home through the beautiful landscapes of New Mexico and Colorado.
Author
Series
Dogleg Island mystery volume 3
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
When the investigation of a hit-and-run on Dogleg Island leads to the counterfeit money trade throughout the southeast U.S. and possible police corruption, police chief Aggie Malone's loyalty and love for her husband, deputy sheriff Ryan Grady, and Flash, their border collie dog, are tested to their limits.
15) Angus and Sadie
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Angus and Sadie, two siblings that are of mostly border collie heritage, are adopted by a young couple and start living on a Maine farm, where they begin to learn sheep herding and come to appreciate how they are different from each another.
16) Jasper Spring
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Ray, a neglected young boy who lives nearby in a trailer is drawn to the secluded meadows and valley around Jasper Spring. Alice and Tucker, the childless couple who ranch and who are caretakers of the valley find themselves drawn to the boy. Alice, Tucker, and Ray soon find themselves in a battle for survival as as a drought descends and the threat of fire looms. But the greater threat to all of them is from the boy's young and impetuous mother....
Author
Series
Dogleg Island mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Still recovering from the traumatic events of the past year, newlyweds Aggie Malone, police chief of Dogleg Island, and Deputy Sheriff Ryan Grady are looking forward to a carefree day of picnics, pirates and buried treasure with their precocious--and uncannily perceptive-- border collie, Flash. But when Flash discovers a body in a shallow grave on the deserted Wild Horse Island Nature Preserve, a tangled knot of conspiracy, murder and deception begins...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Description
"Part memoir, part fable, and part fantasy, this is the story of a man who dies unexpectedly and makes his way to Paradise with the help of the canine friends who shared his life. What if you lived in the middle of a beautiful nowhere, with a dog who mysteriously appeared at your door? What if you were out hiking one winter day, you broke your leg, and you froze to death? And what if the angels who met you the day after had four feet instead of wings?...
19) Jimmy Mender and his miracle dog: and mostly true: 15 short stories from a border collie and his man
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Against the backdrop of the American Pacific coast, one man pursues a dream of what might have been, while another man runs away. Somewhere along the way, they lose their expectations and fears, learning instead to value what is. Their unlikely teacher is a Border Collie with a mission of her own. Add a few little miracles, and you've got the recipe for a perfect unrequited love story, finally put right in a most unexpected way. From the authors of...
20) Flash
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"Aggie Malone is a dedicated young cop who has spent her entire life just looking for a place to call home. She never thought she'd find it in a quaint Florida village called Dogleg Island, where almost nothing ever happens. Almost... Deputy Ryan Grady is an easy going playboy who carries a surf board in the trunk of his patrol car and lives in the same rambling beach cottage his grandfather built seventy years ago. He grew up on Dogleg Island and...