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Johnson, Maddie

How Tickles Saved Pickles: A True Story

(3) K-3 When Pickles, the author's miniature rescue pig, becomes seriously ill and requires a blood transfusion, his "parents" frantically search for a porcine donor. They find one for sale, and Pickles is saved. But what to do with 650-pound Tickles? Tickles eventually finds a home at a farm for other rescued animals. Pickles "narrates" this unusual story; Johnson's photos of her pets are irresistible.

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