The Backward Bird Dog

The Backward Bird Dog
Author: Bill Wallace
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2009-10-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1442407042

What's a Bird Dog to Do? Everyone knows a bird dog leads with his nose. Everyone but J.C. After all, what's a pup supposed to think when he's welcomed to his new home by a cat who thwacks him on the nose with his claws...a dog who bites him on the nose...a bee sting on his you-know-what and a mad mamma bird who attacks the sorest part of his body with her beak? Poor J.C. All he wants is love...cuddling up to My Justin...a good tummy-scratching by My Bill and My Carol. J.C. wants to make his new family proud. But how can he point with a nose everyone wants to attack? There must be a better way...

The Backward Bird Dog

The Backward Bird Dog
Author: Bill Wallace
Publisher: Turtleback
Total Pages:
Release: 1997-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780606126229

What's a pup supposed to think when he's welcomed to his new home by a cat, dog, and mama bird that attack him?

All the Birds, Singing

All the Birds, Singing
Author: Evie Wyld
Publisher: Pantheon
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2014-04-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307907775

From one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists, a stunningly insightful, emotionally powerful new novel about an outsider haunted by an inescapable past: a story of loneliness and survival, guilt and loss, and the power of forgiveness. Jake Whyte is living on her own in an old farmhouse on a craggy British island, a place of ceaseless rain and battering wind. Her disobedient collie, Dog, and a flock of sheep are her sole companions, which is how she wants it to be. But every few nights something—or someone—picks off one of the sheep and sounds a new deep pulse of terror. There are foxes in the woods, a strange boy and a strange man, and rumors of an obscure, formidable beast. And there is also Jake’s past, hidden thousands of miles away and years ago, held in the silences about her family and the scars that stripe her back—a past that threatens to break into the present. With exceptional artistry and empathy, All the Birds, Singing reveals an isolated life in all its struggles and stubborn hopes, unexpected beauty, and hard-won redemption. This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.

The Great Escape

The Great Escape
Author: Bill Wallace
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2014-07-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1481431447

Spring has sprung—and so have we...even cats and dogs get crazy in the spring. After all, what self-respecting cat (that’s me, Chuck) stays somewhere he doesn’t want to be? And what self-respecting dog (that’s Rotten Willy, who calls me Upchuck) won’t let his best friend (me) goad him into action on a fine spring day? Believe me, it’s not easy getting a lumpy Rottweiler over—or under—a big wooden gate! I figured it was about time I took Willy to my pal Luigi’s restaurant for a great spaghetti and meatball dinner. Problem was, Luigi didn’t understand that some dogs and cats, particularly an exceptional feline like me, can be friends. He was only trying to protect me when he went after Willy with a skillet! Boy, did he run. Then Willy decided to teach me how to chase cows. ME chase cows? Me-ow! I tried to introduce him to something more civilized, like chasing mice, but no go. Then came the skunk. Need I say more? But the real obstacle to a long-lasting friendship was yet to come.

Buffalo Gal

Buffalo Gal
Author: Bill Wallace
Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1993
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780671798994

Fifteen-year-old Amanda's refined life in early twentieth-century San Francisco is disrupted when she grudgingly accompanies her mother to the Oklahoma Territory on a crusade to save the buffalo.

Stuart: A Life Backwards

Stuart: A Life Backwards
Author: Alexander Masters
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2006-05-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0440336120

In this extraordinary book, Alexander Masters has created a moving portrait of a troubled man, an unlikely friendship, and a desperate world few ever see. A gripping who-done-it journey back in time, it begins with Masters meeting a drunken Stuart lying on a sidewalk in Cambridge, England, and leads through layers of hell…back through crimes and misdemeanors, prison and homelessness, suicide attempts, violence, drugs, juvenile halls and special schools–to expose the smiling, gregarious thirteen-year-old boy who was Stuart before his long, sprawling, dangerous fall. Shocking, inspiring, and hilarious by turns, Stuart: A Life Backwards is a writer’s quest to give voice to a man who, beneath his forbidding exterior, has a message for us all: that every life–even the most chaotic and disreputable–is a story worthy of being told.

The Dog Who Thought He Was Santa

The Dog Who Thought He Was Santa
Author: Bill Wallace
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 8
Release: 2008-10-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1416948163

In a story told from both canine and human points of view, problems at the mine threaten to ruin Christmas for Don, his family, and the rest of their Oklahoma town, but Don's dog, Frank, is determined to make the holiday special.

Red Dog

Red Dog
Author: Bill Wallace
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2002-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0689853947

Living with his family in the rugged, often dangerous, Wyoming mountains in the 1860's, twelve-year-old Adam finds his courage put to the test when he is left in charge of the household during his stepfather's absence.

Dog Called Kitty

Dog Called Kitty
Author: Bill Wallace
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1992-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0671770810

Afraid of dogs since he was attacked by a mad one, Ricky resists taking in a homeless pup that shows up at the farm.