Listen, by Stephanie Tolan

During her solitary convalescence from a crippling accident, twelve-year-old Charley finds a wild dog, and the arduous process of training him leads her to explore her feelings about her mother's death two years earlier.

Grades 5 and up

Gemini Summer, by Iain Lawrence

Danny's grief over the death of his older brother Beau is eased when a stray puppy adopts him, but he soon decides that Beau is somehow in the dog, and sets out to make his brother's dreams of seeing a rocket launch at Cape Kennedy come true.

Grades 5 and up.