National Pet Month

In this classic novel, Chester the cat is convinced that his family's new pet rabbit is a vampire.

After a war breaks out, Peter is forced to abandon Pax, his beloved pet fox — but Peter and Pax are determined to find one another again.

Pax, a fox, reunites with Peter, the boy who once cared for him, though both are struggling in the aftermath of war.

This classic novel tells the story of three pets who go on a quest through the wilderness to reunite with their owner.

While shopping for groceries, ten-year-old India Opal Buloni finds a dog that will change her life.

Billy saves enough money to buy two pups, Old Dan and Little Ann. Together they become one of the best hunting teams in the Ozarks—and devoted friends as well. But when the unthinkable happens, Billy must learn how to nurture hope in a time of tragedy.

After her parents' divorce, cynical Flora befriends a squirrel with super powers.

In this powerful and heart-wrenching book, a sharecropper's family, including devoted dog Sounder, struggles to survive.

When their father goes off on a cattle drive, a family survives with a little help from a beloved pet dog. Learn these words from the classic novel by Fred Gipson.

Anna Sewell's classic novel tells the life story of a horse who experiences both hardship and kindness.

Stuart Little may be a mouse, but he grows up with a human family and embarks on many bold adventures.

This Newbery Medal-winning novel tells the story of a boy's efforts to protect a beloved dog from abuse.

As his family struggles financially, Jackson deals with hardship with the help of his imaginary friend, a giant cat named Crenshaw.

Crowded by his parents and eight siblings in a New York City apartment, twelve-year-old Sam Gribley runs away to live by himself on his great-grandfather's abandoned farm in the Catskill Mountains.

In this sequel to My Side of the Mountain, Sam Gribley's sister Alice joins her brother in the Catskill Mountains. But when Alice disappears and Sam's beloved falcon is taken away, he must fight to get them back.

In the third book of the My Side of the Mountain trilogy, Frightful is on her own in the wilderness, trying to survive without Sam.

This installment of The Chronicles of Narnia follows the adventures of a runaway boy and a talking horse.

Clarice and Charles Sebastian are sister and brother mice who are fearfully huddling together on a ship, until a mutiny separates them and forces them to fight to survive.

While picnicking with his wife, Abelard Hassam di Chirico Flint, a mouse of Mossville, is swept away by a stormy river onto an island, where he must figure out how to survive and return home.

This first book in the series introduces a hamster named Humphrey, who comes up with plans to solve the problems facing him and the humans of Longfellow School's Room 26.

This first book in the series introduces Hank Wolowitz, a fourth grader in New York, who has an invisible furry bandapat giving him advice on how to deal with a bully.