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Author
Series
Publisher
Bearport Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The English mastiff is the heaviest dog in the world. An adult mastiff tips the scales at more than 250 pounds (113 kg)--as much as a refrigerator! For thousands of years, English mastiffs have lived alongside people. These massive dogs were used to guard castles and help English soldiers in battle. Children will be surprised to learn that despite their huge size and booming bark, mastiffs are calm, friendly, and make devoted family pets. In English...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
What's that huge dog with the short, coarse coat and mellow personality? It's the mastiff! Mastiffs are gentle giants with a calm and easygoing temperament. Their owners think they are the best dogs ever-and it's easy to see why. If you're a mastiff fan, you'll want to learn all about this breed, from its therapeutic work in hospitals and nursing homes to its history of fighting with the Roman army. You'll also want to find out how to care for the...
10) Rock dog
Publisher
Summit Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
For the Tibetan Mastiffs living on Snow Mountain, a dog's life has a simple riff: Guard a peaceful village of wool-making sheep from the thuggish wolf Linnux and his rabid pack. To avoid distractions, Mastiff leader Khampa forbids all music from the mountain. But when Khampa's son Bodi discovers a radio dropped by a passing airplane, it takes just a few guitar licks for his fate to be sealed: Bodi wants to be a rock 'n' roll star.--
11) Mastiffs
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
12) Rock dog
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
For the Tibetan Mastiffs living on Snow Mountain, a dog's life has a simple riff: Guard a peaceful village of wool-making sheep from the thuggish wolf Linnux and his rabid pack. To avoid distractions, Mastiff leader Khampa forbids all music from the mountain. But when Khampa's son Bodi discovers a radio dropped by a passing airplane, it takes just a few guitar licks for his fate to be sealed: Bodi wants to be a rock 'n' roll star.--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A lightbeat, epic account of how the 20-something author brought her giant English Mastiff to her first tiny New York apartment after college, while navigating boyfriends, first jobs, her mother's illness and a bucket list that involves her dog's participation, "--NoveList.
"Lauren Fern Watt moved to New York City after graduating from college, and she took her enormous 160-pound mastiff, Gizelle, along for the ride. It wasn't easy, but Lauren managed...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
An adventure-hungry girl and an enormous Tibetan mastiff share a journey in the Catskill Mountains, where a boy and his teacher from Tibet seek to reopen an abandoned monastery to find a mysterious statue.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When her older brother is arrested on her eleventh birthday, Bean Wright is devastated, and determined to raise the bail money that their mother does not have; the most promising scheme she comes up with is getting a young girl named Phoebe, one of the summer residents, to sell her valuable Mastiff guard dog, Honey--but the scheme takes a dark turn when the buyer turns out to want Honey for dog fighting. --
16) Dogboy
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1346, twelve-year-old Brind, an orphaned kennel boy raised with hunting dogs at an English manor, accompanies his master, along with half of the manor's prized mastiffs, to France, where he must fend for himself when both his master and the dogs are lost at the decisive battle of Crécy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Magnetic Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A loyal Australian hunting dog finds himself alone in the outback when his master is bitten by a poisonous snake. He must venture across the dangerous outback to find his way home alone. The fifth book in the award-winning series of wordless, wildlife graphic novels, each focusing on a day in the life of a different animal, surviving the trials of its unique natural habitat, lushly illustrated like a nature documentary in sequential art." --