You were overjoyed when your dog learned to “SIT!”

“Down” came eventually, then “roll over” and “stay.” He can “shake” both paws, fetch, find, and you’re working on other wicked-cool tricks that he’s eager to learn.

Your dog is a quick learner but can he raise money? Judy Fridono’s dog can, and in the new book “Ricochet: Riding a Wave of Hope with the Dog Who Inspires Millions” (with Kay Pfaltz, c.2014, HCI, $18.95, 271 pages), you’ll read more about this YouTube sensation.

You need to change things up.

A new sense of style is called-for, a new job, new digs, maybe a new outlook on everything. Out with the old, in with the new, different, exciting.

Your old life isn’t working for you these days and that goes doubly for Debbie Dare. In the new book “Debbie Doesn’t Do It Anymore” by Walter Mosley (c.2014, Doubleday, $25.95, 266 pages), it’ll be time for a change — if she survives.

It all starts with baby steps.

Baby steps, with arm-waving balance and shaky testing of foot on floor. You held onto the fingers of someone bigger and more experienced at that sort of thing, one foot in front of the other before you finally got the hang of it all.

You probably don’t remember your first steps — unless it’s your second chance to learn how to make them. In the new book “Run, Don’t Walk” by Adele Levine, P.T. (c.2014, Avery, $26, 278 pages), you’ll see how that can happen.

Sometimes, you just can’t fit in.

You stick out like a sore thumb, totally unable to melt into the crowd. You feel like you have a neon sign across your shoulders; one that says “I’M NEW!”

Yeah, you’re self-conscious then but, if you’re Game Warden Joe Pickett, you get used to it. And yet, as in the new book “Stone Cold” by C.J. Box (c.2014, Putnam, $26.95, 371 pages), standing out could get a man killed.

Anyone who’d seen Nate Romanowski on that nearly-moonless night would’ve instantly known he was a pro.