Junior NCCBA Books (Past and Present)

The list contains all past and present Junior NCCBA Books.

Showing 1 - 11 of 11  There are a total of 85 valid entries on the list.
Book cover for "Cracker!"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Rick Hanski, a young soldier in Vietnam, bonds with Cracker, his bomb-sniffing dog. A young soldier in Vietnam bonds with his bomb-sniffing dog.
Book cover for "Dogs on duty"
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
Documents the contributions of specially trained military dogs, profiling noteworthy canine heroes while covering such topics as how they are trained and what happens to them when they retire.

3. Duke

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Average Rating:
5 stars
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In 1944 Hobie Hanson's father is flying B-24s in Europe, so Hobie decides to donate his beloved German shepherd, Duke, to Dogs for Defense in the hope that it will help end the war sooner--but when he learns that Duke is being trained for combat he is shocked, frightened and determined to get his dog back.
Book cover for "Elvis and the underdogs"
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Average Rating:
3 stars
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All his life Benji, now ten, has been sickly and he has long been targeted by the school bully, but after a seizure Benji gets a therapy dog that is not only big enough to protect him, it can also talk.
Book cover for "Lulu walks the dogs"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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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.
Book cover for "Mountain dog"
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4 stars
Description:
When his mother is sent to jail in Los Angeles, eleven-year-old Tony goes to live with his forest ranger great-uncle in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where Tony experiences unconditional love for the first time through his friendship with a rescue dog.
Book cover for "Rain reign"
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3.8 stars
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Struggling with Asperger's, Rose shares a bond with her beloved dog, but when the dog goes missing during a storm, Rose is forced to confront the limits of her comfort levels, even if it means leaving her routines in order to search for her pet.
Book cover for "Runaway twin"
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4.4 stars
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Thirteen-year-old Sunny, accompanied by a stray dog, takes advantage of a windfall to travel from her Nebraska foster home to Enumclaw, Washington, to find the twin sister from whom she was separated at age three.
Book cover for "Shiloh season"
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Series:
Shiloh quartet volume 2.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
When mean and angry Judd, who has never known kindness, takes to drinking and mistreats his dogs, Marty discovers how deep a hurt can go and how long it takes to heal.
Book cover for "Wild life"
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When twelve-year-old Eric's parents are deployed to Iraq, he goes to live with grandparents he hardly knows in small-town North Dakota, but his grandfather's hostility and the threat of losing the dog he has rescued are too much and Eric runs away.

11. Wish

Book cover for "Wish"
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Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
A story about a girl who, with the help of the dog of her dreams, discovers that family doesn't always have to be related--they are simply people who love you for who you are.