"Some dogs were born to lend a helping hand (or paw!). Zeus, a chocolate lab puppy, is one of them. With his courage, smarts, and strength his purpose seems clear: he'll become a water rescue dog! When a young boy named Kimo is tasked with training Zeus, they quickly become best friends. But Zeus's excitement makes training hard, and worse yet, becoming a working dog means being separated from Kimo. Can Zeus and his boy figure out how to stay together...

Illustrated novel adapted for young readers from the " New York Times" bestselling "A Dog's Purpose" by W. Bruce Cameron.

Barry der Menschenretter, a Saint Bernard dog, reflects back on his life in the early 1800s at the Hospice of the Great Saint Bernard in the Swiss Alps, where he rescued some forty people from avalanches. Includes facts about the breed and the hospice.

"Esta es la historia de un carismático perro callejero en busca de un hogar. Luego de un largo día de búsqueda y aventuras, ¿podrá encontrar una familia?"--Back cover. This is the story of a charismatic stray dog in search of a home. After a long day of searching and adventures, will he be able to find a family?

Buddy and Earl meet their new neighbors, Mister the bulldog and Snowflake the cat, while playing superheroes and when Snowflake gets in some trouble, Wonder Buddy and Super Earl come to the rescue.

"Jet is a border collie puppy tired of feeling hungry and lonely. He's tired of the collar that yanks at his neck and the leash that makes things worse. When his owners move away and leave him tied up in the backyard, it seems like Jet is running out of time. When Jet is saved by a home inspector, he's taken to the Sterling Center, where he shows all the classic signs of a great rescue dog, but he's terrified of the leash. When a plane goes down...

When Dusty, starving and sick, is picked up on the side of the highway after losing his pack, he's lucky to be alive. The tiny Chihuahua is small enough to fit in two hands and needs special care to be nursed back to health before he can be adopted out to a forever family. Dusty recovers at the Sterling Center, where they train Search and Rescue dogs. Though the Sterlings don't think a dog as small as Dusty can do the tireless work of a SAR dog, an...

In this third adventure, the Time Dogs-Baxter, Trevor, Newton, Maia, and Titch-find themselves transported back to the year 1800 to the Swiss Alps. There they meet Barry, a famous Great Saint Bernard rescue dog who saved many lives during his service in the mountain rescue program. Together, the Time Dogs and Barry help rescue a boy trapped in a storm.

In 1909, a nine-month-old puppy, trained unsuccessfully to be a hunting dog, finds a way to earn his keep when disaster strikes in the coal mine where his boy works.

After Ember is rescued from a devastating house fire, she longs for a forever home. But every family that adopts the yellow Lab puppy brings her back, saying she is untrainable, has too much energy, or is just plain destructive. After three failed placements, young Ember is out of options. The Sterling family runs a ranch that turns rescued dogs into rescue dogs. They're willing to take a chance on the young Lab, not knowing that Ember's first rescue...