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Yes, I’m stretching this week’s prompt a little bit. I’m doing it because I love seeing those displays in bookstores that group all sorts of books together based on something they have in common.
In this case, pets are featured in all of these stories which is something I love reading about. You can learn so much about someone by observing the way they treat the animals in their lives.
Here are ten books we’ve reviewed about characters who have one or more pets.
1. The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
Genre: Middle Grade
Animal(s) Mentioned: Rabbits
2. Cold Feet River by Maureen Fisher
Genre: Romance, Mystery
Animal(s) Mentioned: A dog
3. Fishbowl by Bradley Somer
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Animal(s) Mentioned: A fish
4. Birdseye Chronicles by L.A. Goldsmith
Genre: Middle Grade
Animal(s) Mentioned: Dogs
5. An Inheritance for the Birds by Linda Banche
Genre: Historical Romance
Animal(s) Mentioned: Ducks
6. How Cats Survived the Apocalypse by Justin Allan Arnold
Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy
Animal(s) Mentioned: Cats
7. Good Luck Chestnut: and Other Lucky Colors of the World by Linda Gruenberg
Genre: Children’s
Animal(s) Mentioned: A horse
8. A School of Daughters by Kate Rene MacKenzie
Genre: Women’s Fiction
Animal(s) Mentioned: A dog, a horse, a packrat, two owls, a chipmunk, a rattlesnake, and a grosbeak.
9. Luna’s Green Pet by Kirsten Pendreigh
Genre: Children’s
Animal(s) Mentioned: A plant (but it is treated like a pet!)
10. Cats Can’t Shoot by Clea Simon
Genre: Mystery
Animal(s) Mentioned: A cat
Love your twist on the theme! And Fishbowl was such a weird novel, but I really enjoyed it.
Thank you, Aymee. I’m glad you liked that one so much.
I definitely wouldn’t guess some of these are about pets given the cover art… 😉
🙂
I haven’t heard of any of these but Luna’s Green Pet sure has an adorable cover! So cute. 🙂 Thanks so much for visiting my website today. Appreciate this.
You’re welcome. Yeah, Luna’s Green Pet was adorable.
I really like the spin you put on the topic, I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch! I really like seeing what common thread end displays get built around too.
Thank you very much, Louise!
Fun list, gotta love pets 🙂 Luna’s Green Pet looks like an adorable read.
Thank you. 🙂 Yeah, that one was really cute.
Ah fun topic! I used to love all kinds of animal books when I was a kid.
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Thank you. I loved animal books as a kid, too!
Books with pets are the best! I love when they are included in the romances I read.
Oh, that’s the best!
I love your topic. I love books with animals in therm.
Thank you! Aren’t they fun? 🙂
I absolutely adore this topic idea! Somehow, pets always seem to make a book better, and I might just want to steal this idea in the future!
Yes, they sure do! Feel free to borrow this idea. I’d be honored. 🙂
Ooh nice topic choice! I’ll admit I haven’t read many books with pets in them. There have been a few but I am not 100% positive I could remember enough of them for this post! Lol!
Thanks for visiting my TTT!
You’re welcome. Yeah, I forget some of the books I read, too. 🙂
What a fun topic!! Luna’s Green Pet looks absolutely adorable! Going to have to look that one up.
It was adorable! I hope you like it.
I love The Penderwicks!! Such a fun series. Nice topic.
Glad to hear it! And thank you. 🙂
Haha this is such a cute theme to pick!
Thank you.
A very creative topic! I can’t think of a lot of books I’ve read featuring pets, though I did enjoy the dog character in Lessons in Chemistry.
Thanks! That book sounds interesting.
Great topic!
Thank you. 🙂
That first one- I always thought those looked good!
Cool!
Cute Topic 🙂
Thank you!
Fun theme! Thanks for stopping by my blog earlier!
You’re welcome. 🙂
Such a fun topic this week! I always love it when books feature pets. 🙂
Thank you very much! Yeah, that’s super fun.
A Room with a Zoo by Jules Feiffer is about a girl who adopts all these animals. It a really cute kids book I read when I was young.
That sounds adorable.
Cute and refreshing freebie topic. I love reading books that have animals as characters. Sorry I am getting back to you so late. The week got away from me. -Anne@HeadfullofBooks
No worries, Anne. I’m glad you liked my topic this week. 🙂
I don’t know, I don’t think your topic pick feels like a stretch from what the prompt was for the week. Looks like some great books. Have a wonderful weekend.
Glad to hear it. Thank you, and you, too!
Fun twist this week! Pets always make a book better. 🙂
Thank you, and I totally agree there.