While panning for gold with his Pa, Jake adopts a pig that he names Dog.

Granny Gomez's pet pig grows too big to live in the house, so she builds him his own barn but discovers that she is lonely without him.

Two girls named Shakeeta and Mia become friends when Shakeeta boasts that she has a pet iguana and Mia learns how to help Shakeeta "feel at home" even when she is in school.

A young boy learns that moose do not always follow the rules of proper pet behavior.

For Bixby Alexander Tam (nicknamed Bat), life tends to be full of surprises some of them good, some not so good. Today, though, is a good-surprise day. Bat's mom, a veterinarian, has brought home a stray baby skunk, which she needs to take care of until she can hand him over to a wild-animal shelter. But the minute Bat meets the kit, he knows they belong together. And he s got one month to show his mom that a baby skunk might just make a pretty terrific...

"Rodeo Red and her hound dog, Rusty, are happy as can be until Side Swiping Slim comes to town and starts stirring up trouble for them, but when Slim steals Rusty, Red will do anything to get him back--even give up the birthday gift her Aunt Sal, a city slicker, sent." -- Verso.

When Oliver reluctantly takes on a pet-sitting job with a menagerie of birds during Christmas vacation in which he had planned to compete in a snow sculpture contest, a naughty parrot escapes to further complicate his life.

The Vanderbeeker children, ages six to thirteen, race to help save their mother's baking business from closure after it fails an inspection. --