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

Garnering attention after painting a picture of his new pet goldfish, Pete the cat receives so many requests to make paintings for his neighbors that he devises an uproarious solution.

While making rounds treating local pets, veternarian Dr. Kate Turner discovers the bodies of a local couple. While police suspect a murder-suicide, Dr. Kate thinks otherwise. As she discovers many in the small community had good resons to do them in. Was the couple murdered for money their champion dog could bring to another breeder? Is the couple's money-grubbing daughter the one to blame? Or did long-buried personal secrets cause their deaths?...

An agreeable pet boa constrictor earns the affection and gratitude of a French village.

When Rita's mother refuses to get her a pet, Rita goes to the zoo and returns with a rhinoceros--but keeping a pet rhino a secret proves to be much trickier than she ever imagined.

Emma's search for a soft, cuddly pet has a surprising ending.

"They've infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of Senegal, town squares of Oaxaca, schools in Tel Aviv, bedrooms in Ohio. They're following you. They're everywhere now. They're us. In Samanta Schweblin's wildly imaginative new novel, Little Eyes, "kentukis" have gone viral across the globe. They're little mechanical stuffed animals that have cameras for eyes, wheels for feet, and are connected to an anonymous global server....

Mabel's new living situation now that her parents have split has her feeling topsy-turvy, but a weekend caring for the class pet helps her realize that having two homes is not such a bad thing after all.

"Bat grows anxious as his third-grade year comes to an end and the time to release his pet skunk, Thor, out into the wild approaches"-- Provided by publisher.

In this take on the well-known cumulative rhyme, a teacher inadvertently swallows a flea, then follows it with an assortment of classroom pets while her students look on in surprise.