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Rescue Dogs #2
Dusty
When Dusty, starving and sick, is picked up on the side of the highway after losing his pack, he's lucky to be alive. The tiny Chihuahua is small enough to fit in two hands and needs special care to be nursed back to health before he can be adopted out to a forever family.
Dusty recovers at the Sterling Center, where they train Search and Rescue dogs. Though the Sterlings don't think a dog as small as Dusty can do the tireless work of a SAR dog, an undeterred Dusty shows them that heart and determination matter most. Still, when a massive earthquake hits and lives are at risk, even Dusty has to wonder...does he have what it takes to get the job done?
Dusty recovers at the Sterling Center, where they train Search and Rescue dogs. Though the Sterlings don't think a dog as small as Dusty can do the tireless work of a SAR dog, an undeterred Dusty shows them that heart and determination matter most. Still, when a massive earthquake hits and lives are at risk, even Dusty has to wonder...does he have what it takes to get the job done?
304 pages, Paperback
Published June 2, 2020
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About the author
Jane B. Mason
125 books102 followers Jane B. Mason grew up in a large family in northern Minnesota. She has written books for kids of all ages under many names and on many subjects, among them ghosts, Jedi, detective duos, princesses, twins, mean girls, and slam books.
Jane has lived in the midwest and on both coasts, but appears to have settled in Oakland, California, and writes almost every day at either a friend's dining room table or a little studio in her back yard, where she has a purple loveseat, a whole lotta books, and an odd selection of trinkets she has unwittingly been collecting since she was a child.
Jane has lived in the midwest and on both coasts, but appears to have settled in Oakland, California, and writes almost every day at either a friend's dining room table or a little studio in her back yard, where she has a purple loveseat, a whole lotta books, and an odd selection of trinkets she has unwittingly been collecting since she was a child.
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October 26, 2022
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Dusty is a six pound chihuahua who is scavenging for food with his family in Mexico. A bus hits his mother and two siblings, and a woman on the bus makes the driver stop. When she finds Dusty, she smuggles him onto the bus in her sweatshirt. After getting appropriate documents from a local vet, she brings him to the US, where her uncle Pedro works for the Sterling Center training rescue dogs. Pedro and the family that runs the center don't have pets, but Shelby becomes very fond of Dusty while they are nursing him back to health. Dusty has digestive problems due to malnutrition and burnt foot pads, but he is very sweet and enjoys the comfort humans provide. Even though he is so tiny, he trains to be a rescue worker, and serves an essential role when a team travels to Mexico after an earthquake and his small size helps him get into places that larger dogs couldn't in order to rescue people. This follows the same formula that Ember and Jet do, and reading this out of order didn't seem to hurt. Follett has these available in prebind.
Dusty is a six pound chihuahua who is scavenging for food with his family in Mexico. A bus hits his mother and two siblings, and a woman on the bus makes the driver stop. When she finds Dusty, she smuggles him onto the bus in her sweatshirt. After getting appropriate documents from a local vet, she brings him to the US, where her uncle Pedro works for the Sterling Center training rescue dogs. Pedro and the family that runs the center don't have pets, but Shelby becomes very fond of Dusty while they are nursing him back to health. Dusty has digestive problems due to malnutrition and burnt foot pads, but he is very sweet and enjoys the comfort humans provide. Even though he is so tiny, he trains to be a rescue worker, and serves an essential role when a team travels to Mexico after an earthquake and his small size helps him get into places that larger dogs couldn't in order to rescue people. This follows the same formula that Ember and Jet do, and reading this out of order didn't seem to hurt. Follett has these available in prebind.
February 7, 2022
#2 in this series was well received by my four year old!
We checked the second book out from the library without reading the synopsis at all. So we were not prepared for the dark realness which is Dusty's origin story. It became an opportunity to discuss how animals, laws, priorities, etc differ among cultures depending on their needs.
It was a useful background to have when watching Netflix's Expedition Happiness together. The couple travels to Mexico at one point, and note that when they travel they withhold judgment on how each culture handles their animals.
I feel Dusty will always be a family fav, as my son is rather on the small side himself, and Dusty proves that there can be big advantages to focusing on what you've got, rather than what you lack.
We checked the second book out from the library without reading the synopsis at all. So we were not prepared for the dark realness which is Dusty's origin story. It became an opportunity to discuss how animals, laws, priorities, etc differ among cultures depending on their needs.
It was a useful background to have when watching Netflix's Expedition Happiness together. The couple travels to Mexico at one point, and note that when they travel they withhold judgment on how each culture handles their animals.
I feel Dusty will always be a family fav, as my son is rather on the small side himself, and Dusty proves that there can be big advantages to focusing on what you've got, rather than what you lack.
March 22, 2021
This is so cute I can't stand it. This whole series, the opening is just heartbreaking but then the dogs find the ranch. This was lying around my house and I just had to read it because I loved the teeny tiny shoes on the cover so much.
September 26, 2025
Thank you
Loved it. Keep writing for us. We need more feel good stories with wonderful canines. We are going Monday to hear the Ojai Search and Rescue talk. For years we have donated to them what we could.
Loved it. Keep writing for us. We need more feel good stories with wonderful canines. We are going Monday to hear the Ojai Search and Rescue talk. For years we have donated to them what we could.
November 28, 2020
Love make three
July 14, 2022
heartwarming book
I’m a big dog lover and I absolutely loved this book just as much as the first one. Possibly more since I myself have a Chihuahua.
I’m a big dog lover and I absolutely loved this book just as much as the first one. Possibly more since I myself have a Chihuahua.
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