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This title introduces young dog lovers to the sports of racing and lure coursing, covering everything from the history of the sport to conditioning, training, and competing. The title features informative sidebars, exciting photos, a photodiagram, and a glossary.

Take an inside look at the training of police dogs and how they get their often dangerous jobs done.

Discover how helping dogs are trained to aid their handlers in leading independent, happy lives. True-life stories explain how a guide dog can lead a blind person safely across a car-filled street, a hearing dog alerts his deaf handler to her crying baby, and a service dog helps a person in a wheelchair prepare for bedtime.

Working dogs can be heroes--just like people. In Distinguished Dogs, learn how a Port Authority Police K-9 put his life on the line protecting the World Trade Center from bombs, military working canines save soldiers on the battlefield, sled dogs help stop a disease from spreading in Nome, Alaska, and Newfoundland dogs pull drowning victims from the water. Discover how handlers train these courageous canines and how the dogs put the lessons to...

Hunting and herding dogs come in all shapes and sizes. Some have a natural ability to do their work, but training with humans is also important. Learn about how a miniature dachshund forces a rabbit into the path of his hawk-hunting partner, and how the well-trained dogs of Deer Search, Inc. track wounded deer. Discover how a border collie gathers sheep into a pen, and what makes a scrappy Australian cattle dog go head-to-head with a thousand-...

Uncover the difficult training exercises and heroic real-life stories of search and rescue dogs, their handlers, and their brilliant teamwork. Among the amazingly true tales: a disaster search and rescue dog leaps from metal beam to concrete slab while trying to locate an earthquake victim trapped beneath the rubble of a fallen building, a group of children lost in the forest is saved by a wilderness search and rescue canine, and a snow slide ...

An introduction to the life and career of Rachel Carson who was able to bring national attention to the hazards of using pesticides.

A responsible person answers for his or her decisions and actions. Managing Responsibilities tells the stories of responsible people who made a difference throughout history--including Helen Keller, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ruby Bridges, and modern teens--and suggests to readers how they, too, may become more accountable for their actions at school, at home, with money, and on the Internet.