Sophie Lena’s Series
About Sophie Lena’s Series
Sophie Lena’s Series is a heart-warming collection of children’s books told from the wise, loving perspective of a devoted service dog.
Inspired by real life, the series follows Sophie Lena and her human through training, travel, hospital days, farm life, friendship, hard moments, and everyday joy. Through Sophie’s eyes, readers learn gentle but powerful lessons about courage, communication, empathy, honesty, boundaries, resilience, leadership, and hope.
At the heart of the series is an extraordinary bond between a young woman living with cystic fibrosis (CF) and the service dog who helps her navigate life with love, loyalty, and purpose. Sophie Lena is more than a companion. She is a working dog, a teammate, and a steady presence through moments that are beautiful, difficult, funny, scary, and deeply meaningful.
Created for children ages 6–11, these stories help readers understand feelings, face hard moments, and discover the courage to keep going. The series is also a meaningful resource for families, classrooms, counselors, and caregivers looking for empathy-centered stories that support social and emotional learning.
Each book offers lessons from Sophie’s life: how trust is built, why communication matters, how kindness and respect shape relationships, how to ask for help, how to set boundaries, how to stay calm under pressure, and how to keep taking the next right step. Books vary in length based on complexity of concept. Sophie’s journey also shows the importance of responsibility, cooperation, gratitude, and perseverance — especially when life feels uncertain.
While the books are shaped by real experiences with chronic illness, service dog work, and resilience, they are not only stories about hardship. They are stories about connection, encouragement, purpose, and noticing what matters. They remind readers that bravery does not always roar — sometimes it looks like one small pawstep forward.
Sophie Lena’s Series invites readers into a world where love and empathy are active, kindness and compassion are strong, and no one has to face hard things alone.
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Box Set 1 includes Books 1–10 of Sophie Lena’s Series.
Told from the wise, loving perspective of a devoted service dog, the first box set follows Sophie Lena as she learns what it means to become a working dog, a teammate, and a steady source of support for her human.
Inspired by real life, books 1 - 10 focus on Sophie’s training, growth, and the foundation of trust that makes her job possible. As Sophie learns to listen, communicate, stay calm, notice patterns, and support her human through both everyday routines and difficult moments, she also discovers powerful lessons about courage, responsibility, empathy, resilience, boundaries, perseverance, and love in action.
At the center of the series is the extraordinary bond between a young woman living with cystic fibrosis (CF) and the service dog who helps her navigate life with loyalty, purpose, and hope. Through training days, hospital moments, friendship, farm life, and small acts of bravery, Sophie begins to understand that being a service dog is not only about performing tasks — it is about showing up with love, focus, and heart.
This emotionally rich, gently humorous series offers early middle-grade readers (ages 6–11) stories of trust, perseverance, kindness, and finding light even in life’s hardest moments.
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In Book 1 : The Bond, Sophie describes the connection that was formed when she first met her human and all the pawsteps to follow.
In Book 2: Service Training, Sophie learns about service dog training and life skills.
In Book 3 : Always Close, Sophie tells about always being close to those she loves and helps.
In Book 4 : Love Math I, Sophie explains all that she learns about conveying love and empathy to others through her loving lens.
In Book 5: Love Math II, Sophie learns how to show support and care through solving more complex equations.
In Book 6: On Duty, Sophie tells all about practicing being on duty as a service dog in many situations and environments.
In Book 7 : Airports, Sophie tells us all about the ropes of being a service dog in an airport.
In Book 8 : Farm Life, Sophie introduces us to her sanctuary and explains her jobs on the farm.
In Book 9 : Communication, Sophie explains how important communication and connection is to her effectively doing her job. Through Sophie’s skills we learn helpful lessons in communication.
In Book 10 : Graduation, Sophie celebrates not just the milestone of completing training, but all of the courage, confidence, and life lessons she’s learned along the way to becoming a service dog.
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Box Set 2 includes Books 11–20 of Sophie Lena’s Series.
Told from the wise, loving perspective of a devoted service dog, the second box set follows Sophie Lena as she carries the lessons of her training into the wider world.
After learning how to listen, communicate, stay strong, and support her human through daily life, Sophie begins to apply those lessons through new experiences, bigger adventures, and deeper challenges. From travel and hospitals to friendship, farm life, hard conversations, changing plans, and moments of uncertainty, Sophie discovers that being a service dog is not only about what she was trained to do — it is about how she shows up with love, courage, honesty, and purpose.
Inspired by real life, these later books explore what happens when Sophie and her human move beyond the foundation of training and into the heart of living. Along the way, Sophie learns about communication, trust, resilience, empathy, boundaries, perseverance, gratitude, and the quiet strength it takes to keep going when life does not go as planned.
At the center of the series is the extraordinary bond between a young woman living with cystic fibrosis (CF) and the service dog who helps her navigate the world with loyalty, humor, and hope. Together, they face hard days and beautiful ones, discovering that every journey is shaped by the love, lessons, and connections we carry with us.
This emotionally rich, gently humorous series offers early middle-grade readers (ages 6–11) stories of courage, purpose, adventure, and finding light one pawstep at a time.
Fill out the form below to be added to the waitlist!
