Dog Gone by Pauls Toutonghi is the story of the Marshall family and, in particular, Fielding Marshall and his beloved pet, a six year old Golden Retriever mix named Gonker. When he bolts away from his owner while hiking on the Appalachian Trial, the Marshall family is under a time limit. Gonker has Addison's Disease and must be found within 23 days to get his monthly injection of the medicine that keeps him alive.
The story follows the Marshalls and their other dog, Uli, as they pull together not only themselves, but also their community, to bring Gonker home.
The other book is The True Tales of Baker and Taylor by Jan Louch with Lisa Rogak.
In 1982, the brand-new Douglas County library in Nebraska had a problem: mice. The new
building was built on an alfalfa field and where there's alfalfa,
there's an abundance of mice. Because mice have an unfortunate love for the taste
of bookbinding glue, the librarians had to
take steps to protect the new library's books. This included a pair of
Scottish Fold cats brought in as mousers - and named after the library
wholesaler, Baker & Taylor.
Neither the humans nor the cats had any idea
where the need for mouse control would take them. This photogenic pair of cats
first gained notice on a poster advertising their library before reaching a world-wide audience on the posters and ads of the same company for which they were named.
