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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Recently retired, Harold Fry lives in a small English village with a wife who seems irritated by everything he does. Little differentiates one day from the next until a letter arrives in the mail from a woman he hasn't heard from in twenty years. Queenie Hennessy, in hospice, is writing to say goodbye. Harold pens a quick reply, but a chance encounter at the corner mailbox convinces him that he must deliver it in person. So Harold sets off on a six-hundred...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Life in middle school is finally starting to seem bearable-until Rafe spots his grandmother standing on the free-meal line at the local soup kitchen. In order to help bring in more money, Rafe concocts a brilliant plan-a dog-walking business that soon turns into a huge money-making neighborhood empire"--
Author
Series
Walk novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this fifth entry in the New York Times bestselling Walk series, Richard Paul Evans's hero Alan Christoffersen must say some painful goodbyes and learn some important lessons as he comes to the end of his cross-country walk to Key West"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A delicious twist on a Gothic classic, Rachel Hawkins's The Wife Upstairs pairs Southern charm with atmospheric domestic suspense, perfect for fans of B.A. Paris and Megan Miranda. Meet Jane. Newly arrived to Birmingham, Alabama, Jane is a broke dog-walker in Thornfield Estates--a gated community full of McMansions, shiny SUVs, and bored housewives. The kind of place where no one will notice if Jane lifts the discarded tchotchkes and jewelry off...
7) Dog daze
Author
Series
Publisher
Rabbit Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In their town where every night is Halloween, Honey Moon and her friends are looking to earn some money, so they start a dog walking business called the Sleepy Hollow Howlers that soons turns into somewhat of a challenge for them to handle.
8) Turtle walk
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A family of turtles goes for a long, long walk that has an unexpected and very fun ending"--
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
While his friend works hard to earn the train fare to Fitchburg, young Henry Thoreau walks the thirty miles through woods and fields, enjoying nature and the time to think great thoughts. Includes biographical information about Thoreau.
13) I went walking
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the course of a walk, a young boy identifies animals of different colors.
14) Walkin' the dog
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A dog walking venture helps thirteen-year-old Louis, who would rather kick back than stand out, learn how to be a friend.
Author
Series
Mirette books volume 1
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mirette learns tightrope walking from Monsieur Bellini, a guest in her mother's boarding house, not knowing that he is a celebrated tightrope artist who has withdrawn from performing because of fear.
17) Meg takes a walk
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In simple sentences, tells about the adventures that occur when Meg takes her dog Peg for a walk.
Author
Series
Lulu (Judith Viorst) volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lulu needs help from a boy named Fleischman if she is to earn money walking her neighbors' dogs, and she finds out that if she wants her business venture to succeed, she has to be nice.
19) The New Yorkers
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Relates the influence that the canine pets in one Manhattan neighborhood have in helping to initiate relationships between the human members of their community.
20) Beguiled
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Rylee Monroe walks dogs in old-money Charleston, a part of the city recently targeted by a daring thief. Logan Woods works the crime beat for the local paper but dreams of a life as a nonfiction writer. When the string of robberies takes a strange twist, Logan sees the making of a once-in-a-lifetime book that seems to circle around this charming, eye-catching dogwalker.
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