In Dog Sense by Sneed B Collard, III, winner of the ASPCA Henry Bergh Children's Book Award, 13-year-old Guy Martinez faces difficult people and life events with the help of his grandfather, a new friend and his beloved Border Collie, Streak. Guys' new friend helps train Streak to possibly beat the town bully in a Frisbee-catching contest. Hard cover, 176 pgs. (ages 9-12).

A Dog's Life: Autobiography of a Stray by Newbery Honor Book author, Ann M. Martin, winner of the ASPCA Henry Bergh Children's Book Award, is an "autobiography" of a dog named Squirrel. Squirrel takes the reader through finding her way in the world after being a separated from her family as a puppy. Martin adds graceful dog's-eye descriptions of nature, as when a moon waxes "from the tiny curl of a cat's claw to a half-closed eye," to the tale. Hardcover, 192 pgs. (ages 9-12).