Ben loves animals. He always wanted a dog, but his mom always said NO. One day a scruffy-looking stray follows him home. Ben and his sister, Abi, hide the dog in his bedroom. When Mom finds out, she is livid. That dog has got to go, she yells. Then something happens. Can Ben persuade his mom to change her mind and keep that dog? These decodable books take students from CVC and CVCC word level text to adjacent consonants, consonant digraphs and suffixes....