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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan,...
2) War horse
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young Albert enlists to service in WWI after his beloved horse, Joey, is sold to the cavalry. Albert's hopeful journey takes him out of England and across Europe as the war rages on.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
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Formats
Description
A tale reminiscent of "Hamlet" that also celebrates the alliance between humans and dogs follows speech-disabled Wisconsin youth Edgar, who bonds with three yearling canines and struggles to prove that his sinister uncle is responsible for his father's death.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Grumpy Mr. Pusskins hates doing ordinary cat things such as playing with his owner Emily but a night out on the streets in search of adventure makes him reconsider the advantages of a loving home.
5) Linger
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Grace and Sam struggle to keep their relationship together, while Grace lies to her parents and keeps a secret from them and Sam copes with his werewolf past.
6) Free Willy
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003, c1993
Language
English
Description
A story about the friendship that develops between a twelve-year-old boy who knows what it's like to be without a family and a whale confined in a too-small tank at an aquatic park.
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Ted, the explorer with a large yellow hat, is good friends with Bloomsberry. Bloomsberry runs a natural history museum. His greedy son, Bloomsberry Junior, wants to tear down his dad's museum and put a parking garage in its place, but the elder Bloomsberry is convinced that a spectacular new exhibit could save the museum from the wrecking ball. Ted heads to Africa on an expedition to find some special artifacts that will keep his friend in business....
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008, c1960
Language
English
Description
Dalamatians Pongo and Perdita launch an all-out rescue effort when their puppies, along with dozens of others from throughout London, fall into the clutches of Cruella De Vil, who is looking to make herself a nice new spotted fur coat.
9) Shiver
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity.
10) Goose and Duck
Author
Series
Publisher
Laura Geringer Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young boy becomes the "mother" to a goose, who becomes "mother" to a duck, as they learn about the rhythms of nature together.
Author
Series
Ivy + Bean volume 5
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ivy and Bean decide to be good, kind, and pure of thought in the hopes that the wild animals will befriend them, but when their plan doesn't work, they decide sometimes it's good to be a little bad.
12) Charlotte's web
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Language
English
Description
Fern is a young farm girl who rescues the runt, Wilbur. Wilbur the pig is saved from certain death and Fern visits him every day at her Uncle Homer's farm. But it's Wilbur's friendship with Charlotte the spider that ultimately saves him from the "smoke house." Charlotte's talent for weaving praiseworthy words about Wilbur into her web turns the Zuckerman farm into a tourist attraction.
13) Paulie
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A parrot gets separated from the little girl who loves him and has a long series of adventures trying to find her again.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Julie, having worked year-round to save money to buy her first Chincoteague pony, realizes she doesn't have enough, but when Pony Penning Day arrives stranger help her make her purchase.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Remember the last book you told someone they had to read? Lily and the Octopus is the next one. This is a story about that special someone: the one you trust, the one you can't live without. For Ted Flask, that someone special is his aging companion Lily, who happens to be a dog. Lily and the Octopus reminds us how it feels to love fiercely, how difficult it can be to let go, and how the fight for those we love is the greatest fight of all"--From...
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Jon comes up with the perfect gift for Liz--a photograph of himself, Garfield, and Odie--but taking it is a challenge. Then, when Nermal gets his hands on Pooky, Garfield is forced to be nice to the kitten for a whole day, and, finally, Garfield stands trial in a fish court for crimes against fishkind.
20) The circus ship
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A circus ship has an accident off the coast of Maine which leaves the animals stranded, but they are soon taken in by the citizens of a small island who grow fond of the new residents and fight to protect them.
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