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2) Nop's trials
Author
Language
English
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Description
Donald McCaig's heartwarming and suspenseful novel about a sheepdog's devotion to his master and his job is a modern classic that James Herriot hailed as "poignant, authentic, and beautiful" On Christmas Day, Virginia livestock farmer Lewis Burkholder and Nop, his black-and-white border collie, go out to feed the sheep. But the holiday is shattered when Nop fails to return home. Stolen by two hardened criminals who see in the young stock dog a $300...
3) Sheep
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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.
7) Banjo
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Danny, a rising rodeo star whose border collie, Banjo, has been wounded by neighbors, and Meg, who has a way with animals, come together to keep Banjo safe, aided by Danny's brother.
8) Nop's Hope
Author
Language
English
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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...
Author
Language
English
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Description
When the lumber mill closes, laying off most everyone in Fossett, Oregon, Melanie MacDonald plans to revitalize her beloved but beleaguered homestead by running her border collie Shep in Fossett's mayoral race . . . Shep wins by a landslide. A lover of democracy and dog treats, Shep is rapidly earning the goodwill of Fossett's citizens. Tourists are streaming in and everyone wants to glad-paw the new mayor. Suddenly Melanie and Shep are media darlings,...
12) Field trip
Author
Series
Road trip volume 2
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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 during which Ben manages to try out for a hockey academy against his parents' wishes and the twins turn the road trip into a learning experience.
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