Bent Northrop Memorial Library

"Deep underground beneath Perfect Pets, where children can buy genetically engineered 'perfect' creatures, there is a secret lab. Barnabus and his friends live in this lab, but none of them is perfect. They are all Failed Projects. Barnabus has never been outside his tiny bell jar, yet he dreams of one day seeing the world above ground that his pal Pip the cockroach has told him about: a world with green hills and trees, and buildings that reach all...

When Crusher the snake is captured, her only thought is to escape but as time goes by and she befriends the other inmates of the "zoo," she realizes that freedom also means leaving companions behind.

Kirsty and Rachel find Glitter, Penny's magic pony, but they have to find a way out of the forest before Jack Frost and his goblins catch up to them and capture Glitter for themselves.

Simple rhyming text extolls the virtures of mice as the perfect pet.

Nino has a wonderful time playing with his imaginary dog until he gets a real one, and although the new dog does not always behave as he expects, Nino is still content.

Dink and his friends investigate why pets, like Mrs. Davis's canary, Mozart, are mysteriously disappearing all over town.

A little girl feeds Ginger, a thin little cat who has been living in a patch of weeds, and takes him home to live with her.

An overly-alarmed Chester the cat predicts a gruesome fate for the pets in the Monroe household when a writer of juvenile horror fiction and his bird companion stay overnight.

Cesar, a green iguana and the class pet of Ms. Lee's second grade, is sad when his friends leave him behind during Spring Break, until he decides to explore the school and meets all kinds of new friends.

Thirteen-year-old Drew starts the summer of 1986 helping in her mother's cheese shop and dreaming about co-worker Nick, but when her widowed mother begins dating, Drew's father's book of lists, her pet rat, and Emmett, a boy on a quest, help her cope.