Little pigeon Petite is too scared to join her siblings for their first flight, but with her family's encouragement she finally tries--falls--and learns a lesson about fear, failure, and strength that will carry her through life.

"Charles and Lizzie Peterson love puppies. Their family fosters these young dogs, giving them love and proper care, until they can find the perfect forever home. Trixie loves playing dress up, and this gives Lizzie a brilliant idea. Halloween is just around the corner and she plans a costume contest for the dogs at the shelter." --

Peril at Christmas awaits… in these gripping Pacific Northwest K-9 Unit novellas. A Christmas skiing retreat turns treacherous when Pacific Northwest K-9 Unit officer Veronica Eastwood’s sister is kidnapped—and only rival officer Parker Walsh can help her in Katy Lee’s Yuletide Ransom. And in Sharee Stover’s explosive Holiday Rescue Countdown, K-9 officers Dylan Jeong and Brandie Weller must race against the clock...

A little boy's animal friends help him discover the poetry to be found in nature.

The Black Stallion meets Tamora Pierce in this adventure-filled middle-grade novel about a young stable girl who discovers a secret that endangers her beloved horse and threatens her future. Sonnia loves horses more than anything. She works at her family's struggling pony ride business but dreams of the beautiful steeds in the royal stables, especially Ricochet, who she's been slowly saving money to buy - even though she knows people from her impoverished...

Stillwater the giant panda's nephew, Koo, has a dream about saving the world, and Stillwater shows him that sometimes saving the world starts with doing the little things, like cleaning your room, and feeding the cat.

Ten animals find shelter in a hill hollow one by one, but when the storm is over, a rumbling tells them there is still danger afoot.

Mona the mouse is precisely the maid they need at the grandest hotel in Fernwood Forest, where animals come from far and wide for safety, luxury, and comfort.

Class pets Fergus and Zeke, who like to do everything the students do, go outside for Field Day only to find none of the sports are suitable for mice, so they come up with their own events and then discover they have been locked out of the classroom.

"On a crisp, fall day and evening, rambunctious bear cubs turn getting dressed into an adventure"--