\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/71rfEa1zLL-231x300.jpg\") <\/td>\n | In Kathi Appelt\u2019s The Underneath<\/em> (Atheneum, 2010), Ranger \u2013 a hound \u2013 shelters a cat and her kitten beneath the porch, saving them from Gar-Face, his evil master. A magical and wonderful story, populated with legendary creatures of the bayou \u2013 the Alligator King and Grandmother Moccasin, who lives trapped in a buried jar. For ages 10 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/9780147510068_p0_v3_s1200x630-195x300.jpg\") <\/td>\n | In Paul Griffin\u2019s When Friendship Followed Me Home<\/em> (Puffin, 2017), Ben Coffin, the narrator, has had a tough time in the foster-care system, though he\u2019s helped by the little dog, Flip, who follows him home, and by Halley, the girl he meets at the library. The pair train Flip as a therapy dog while Halley, who has cancer, struggles with chemotherapy. It\u2019s a tearjerker, but also a hopeful story of love and resilience. With a dog. For ages 10 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/61TpdE5gXaL-188x300.jpg\") <\/td>\n | In Tom Rogers\u2019s Eleven<\/em> (Alto Nido Press, 2014), Alex turns eleven on September 11, 2001 \u2013 and for his birthday he wants a dog. He finds and connects with a little stray dog \u2013 but his birthday this year is fraught with emotion and terror, as Alex worries about his father, who drives a train to the World Trade Center. Told from three different points of view, a well-done story of an unforgettable and tragic disaster. For ages 10 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/No-More-Dead-Dogs-204x300.jpg\") <\/td>\n | I have to sympathize with Wallace Wallace, star of Gordon Korman\u2019s No More Dead Dogs<\/i> (Disney-Hyperion, 2002). Hyper-honest eighth-grade football player Wallace has had it with books in which the dog dies, and so refuses to write a favorable book report about the current class read, Old Shep, My Pal<\/i>. As punishment, Wallace is forced to attend rehearsals of the Drama Club\u2019s production of Old Shep<\/i> \u2013 and finds that he has a lot of suggestions. Snappy, funny, and the dog \u2013 in Wallace\u2019s hands -makes it. For ages 11-14.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/city-204x300.jpg\") <\/td>\n | Clifford Simak\u2019s City<\/i> (Ace, 1952) is a collection of eight stories set in the distant future in which human beings have left Earth, leaving behind only robots and a population of now highly evolved and articulate dogs. Check your library. For ages 13 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/timbuktu-196x300.jpg\") <\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/td>\n Paul Auster\u2019s Timbuktu<\/i> (Picador, 2009) is the story of a schizophrenic homeless man, Willy Christmas, and his dog, Mr. Bones. Willy is dying, and so sets off on a trek from Brooklyn to Baltimore to find his former high-school English teacher, hoping to find both a home for his dog \u2013 and for the collection of manuscripts that he has written and stashed at the Greyhound bus terminal. The story is told from the point of view of Mr. Bones. For older teenagers and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nDOG MYSTERIES<\/b><\/h4>\n | | | | | | |