Super Sniffers: Dog Detectives on the Job

Patent provides an extensive and eye-opening look at how dogs are trained for a variety of service capacities, including in the military, for search-and-rescue operations, and as medical alert dogs. Occasional profiles of individual dogs appear amid larger, photo-heavy discussions of the wide variety of jobs these dogs do and how they are trained. Lily, a Labrador retriever mix, was able to put her “intense and active” personality to work tracking down gorilla dung for scientists, while a dog named Oakley serves as a companion to a diabetic boy, alerting his parents if his blood drops too low. Ages 7–10. Agent: Susan Schulman, Susan Schulman Literary Agency. (Sept.)