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Froggy and his little sister Polly want a dog of their own, but Doggy proves harder to train than Froggy anticipated.

Rumor has it that the new gym teacher is a real monster, someone who works the students very hard and makes them participate in dangerous activities like playing dodge ball with his truck.

Emily Elizabeth's aunt wants to teach Clifford to behave like a good dog, so he learns to heel, sit, and stay. Even when it's very hard to do, if he BELIEVES IN HIMSELF, Clifford can do anything!

"When Kitty's owners have finally had enough of her bad behavior, it's time to ship her off to obedience school"--

Returning home to New York City from a visit to his uncle in India, teenager Alec Ramsay is the sole human survivor of a devastating shipwreck. Trapped on a deserted island, Alec finds his only companion is an Arabian horse, beautiful, unbroken, and savage ... a horse whose beauty matches his wild spirit.

Hadley is an angry girl: angry at her mother for embezzling money, angry at her estranged older sister, Beth, whom she has to live with while her mother is in jail, angry at having to move to Kentucky away from her friends, and angry at the world because she has retinitis pigmentosa and is slowly going blind; but then she meets Lila, a rescued pit bull who has not responded to anyone else--so if Hadley can train Lila, maybe the dog can get adopted...

Rambunctious adopted dog Arthur wreaks havoc with his attempts to "help" the James family, until they start training him with a rewards system.

Emma's dog Toby misbehaves every day, but after he passes some training classes, Toby learns new tricks which reminds Emma of the reasons why she loves her pet.

Photographs and facts on how dogs are used to help and rescue people.