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1) Shiloh
Author
Series
Shiloh quartet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
Author
Language
English
Description
This masterpiece of eighteenth-century English poetry tells the epic tale of a sailor who endures a fate worse than death for killing an albatross.
After callously shooting an albatross with his crossbow, a sailor is doomed to a nightmarish voyage from the Antarctic to the Equator before returning home as the sole survivor of the journey. When the haunting figure Life-in-Death wins his soul in a game of dice, the sailor is doomed to forever roam the...
Author
Series
One and only Ivan stories volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Walking gthrough the misty Florida woods one morning, twelve-year-old Rob Horton is stunned to encounter a tiger--a real-life, very large tiger--pacing back and forth in a cage. What's more, on the same extraordinary day, he meets Sistine Bailey, a girl who shows her feelings as readily as Rob hides his. As they learn to trust each other, and ultimately, to be friends, Rob and Sistine prove that some things--like memories, and heartache, and tigers--can't...
Author
Series
CHERUB novels volume 6
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When a new radical animal protection group argues that it is right to kill or threaten one human in order to save the lives of many animals, James and the other agents must try to stop the group from completing a violent mission.
Author
Series
Animal Ark hauntings volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
7) Cages
Author
Publisher
Cobblehill Books/Dutton
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After losing an acting role and fighting with her alcoholic stepfather, Kit is arrested for shoplifting and ordered to work, as part of her sentence, at an animal shelter.
Author
Series
Animal ark volume 33
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Mandy and James observe SPCA inspector Danny Davies and his beagle, Sasha, on patrol, things taken an unexpected turn when Sasha is injured.
9) Lost & found
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
An unforgettable tale of love, loss, and moving on-with the help of one not-so-little dog...
After the death of her husband, Rocky flees to Peak's Island, a tiny speck off the coast of Maine, a million miles away from everything she's lost. Taking a job as an Animal Warden, Rocky meets Lloyd, a large Labrador retriever, who enters her world with a primitive arrow sticking out of his shoulder. And so begins a remarkable friendship between a wounded...
10) Massacre pond
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Investigating the senseless slaughter of five moose found on the estate of a wealthy animal rights activist, Game Warden Mike Bowditch finds the controversial case turning more sinister when the activist's daughter is killed in a suspicious accident, a situation that compels Bowditch to risk everything he cares about.
13) Sun kissed
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Series
Language
English
Description
When Samantha Harrigan attends the local rodeo, she doesn't expect to wind up in jail. But that's precisely what happens when she tries to stop a drunkard from abusing his horse. At least she isn't alone. Tucker Coulter, a handsome local veterinarian, comes to her defense-and is arrested too. The charges are dropped, but Sam's troubles have only started. Her champion quarter horses are falling ill and the culprit is poison. As the insurance beneficiary,...
Author
Publisher
Storey Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Author Temple Grandin is famous for her approach to decoding animal behavior. Now she extends her guidance to small-scale farming operations. Grandin's explanations of how herd animals think -- describing their senses, fears, instincts, and memories -- and how to analyze their behavior, will help you handle your livestock more safely and effectively. You'll learn to become an observer of animal movement and behavior, and illustrations will help you...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"James Patterson and award-winning Zambian writer Ellen Banda-Aaku deliver an unforgettable survival story of a Maasai girl who faces down poachers to find a future among the elephants. Clever, sensitive Jama likes elephants better than people. While her classmates gossip - especially about the new boy, Leku - Jama takes refuge at the watering hole outside her village. There the twelve-year-old Maasai girl befriends a baby elephant she names Mbegu,...
16) Rescue
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When Chess moves near Joni, their differing opinions have Joni defending her family's farm, and she must find the courage to stand up to Chess when she decides to "rescue" the minature horses from a nearby farm.
17) The darling
Author
Language
English
Description
Having fled to West Africa in the late 1970s for her work as a political radical, Hannah Musgrave befriends notorious former Liberian president Charles Taylor, who years later leads a rebellion that threatens Hannah's family.
18) City chickens
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Just outside of downtown Minneapolis, follow the sounds of crowing and clucking and you will find Mary Britton Clouse's Chicken Run Rescue. Over the years, Mary and her husband have given hundreds of homeless birds a safe place to rest until they can be adopted by caring families.
19) Gray bat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses why the gray bat became endangered and what was done to help them recover and survive.
20) 5 elephants
Author
Language
English
Description
Profiles of five famous elephants introduce young nature enthusiasts to the stories of thriving wild elephant Echo, solitary zoo elephant Lucy, sanctuary elephant Tarra, tragic entertainment elephant Tusko, and rehabilitated elephant Thandora.
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