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Children's Recommendations - Animals

Animals - Fast and Fun

Humphrey's really wheely racing day book cover
ISBN: 9781480663589
Title: Humphrey's really wheely racing day by Betty G. Birney - When Mandy, one of the students from classroom 26, brings a special hamster-sized racecar to class, it means just one thing--Humphrey is going to be in a hamster race
Author: Birney, Betty G, author.
bad_kitty_gets_a_bath
ISBN: 9781596433410
Title: Bad kitty gets a bath by Nick Bruel - Bad Kitty is forced to take a bath in this riotous how-to guide filled with bad smells, cautionary tales of horror, and hopefully by the end…some soap
Author: Bruel, Nick.
Stone Fox
ISBN: 0690039832
Title: Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner - Little Willie hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dog sled race he enters
Author: Gardiner, John Reynolds.
how_to_save_your_tail
ISBN: 9780375937552
Title: How to save your tail : if you are a rat nabbed by cats who really like stories about magic spoons, wolves with snout-warts, big, hairy chimney trolls-- and cookies too by Mary Hanson - Bob the rat shares fresh-baked cookies and stories of his ancestors
Author: Hanson, Mary Elizabeth.
Misty_inn
ISBN: 9781481414142
Title: Welcome home! by Kristin Earhart - When Willa and Ben's family moves to Chincoteague Island to open a bed-and-breakfast, the siblings are unsure if it will ever feel like home
Author: Earhart, Kristin, author.
skunked
ISBN: 9781627798686
Title: Skunked! by Jacqueline Kelly - When Travis discovers an abandoned baby skunk, he can't help but bring it home and take care of it
Author: Kelly, Jacqueline, author.
Cynthia Rylant's THE STORM book cover
ISBN: 0689848803
Title: The storm by Cynthia Rylant - Pandora the cat becomes a lighthouse keeper and saves the life of Seabold the dog, and together the two of them create a family with three young mice rescued from the sea
Author: Rylant, Cynthia.
Yasmine Surovec's MY PET HUMAN book cover
ISBN: 9781626720732
Title: My pet human by Yasmine Surovec - A cuddly chapter book series about a cat in need of a pet human
Author: Surovec, Yasmine, author, illustrator.
8_thclass_pets1squirrel1dogchaos
ISBN: 9780823423644
Title: 8 class pets + 1 squirrel [divided by] 1 dog = chaos by Vivian Vande Velde - A dog chases a squirrel into an elementary school one night, creating monumental chaos
Author: Vande Velde, Vivian. author.

Animals - Fiction

The_true_blue_scouts_segar_man_swamp
ISBN: 9781442421059
Title: The true blue scouts of Sugar Man Swamp by Kathi Appelt - Twelve-year-old Chap Brayburn, ancient Sugar Man, and his raccoon-brother Swamp Scouts Bingo and J'miah try to save Bayou Tourterelle
Author: Appelt, Kathi, 1954-
one_and_only_ivan
ISBN: 9780061992278
Title: The one and only Ivan by Katherine Applegate - 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: Applegate, Katherine, author.
Sounder
ISBN: 0060201436
Title: Sounder by William H. Armstrong - Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and with the help of the devoted dog Sounder
Author: Armstrong, William Howard, 1914-
Poppy
ISBN: 0531087832
Title: Poppy by Avi - Poppy the deer mouse urges her family to move next to a field of corn big enough to feed them all forever, but Mr. Ocax, a terrifying owl, has other ideas
Author: Avi, 1937-
the_wolf_keepers
ISBN: 9780805098990
Title: The wolf keepers by Elise Broach - Twelve-year-old Lizzie Durango lives in a zoo, spending her days taking note of the animals' behaviors, then she meets runaway Tyler Briggs and together they investigate the wolves who are suddenly dying
Author: Broach, Elise, author.
the_incredible_journey
ISBN: 0385322798
Title: The incredible journey by Sheila Burnford - A Siamese cat, an old bull terrier, and a young Labrador retriever travel together 250 miles through the Canadian wilderness to find their family
Author: Burnford, Sheila Every.
the_ninelives_of_jacobtibbs
ISBN: 9780553511246
Title: The nine lives of Jacob Tibbs by Cylin Busby - The story of cat Jacob Tibbs, runt of the litter, and his exploits on the high seas as a ship's mouser
Author: Busby, Cylin, author.
the_mouse_and_the_motorcycle
ISBN: 0688316980
Title: The mouse and the motorcycle by Beverly Cleary - A reckless young mouse named Ralph makes friends with a boy in room 215 of the Mountain View Inn and discovers the joys of motorcycling
Author: Cleary, Beverly.
fantastic_mr.fox
ISBN: 0375922075
Title: Fantastic Mr. Fox by by Roald Dahl - Three farmers, each one meaner than the other, try all-out warfare to get rid of the fox and his family
Author: Dahl, Roald,
the_tiger_rising.
ISBN: 9780763652708
Title: The tiger rising by Kate DiCamillo - Rob, who passes the time in his rural Florida community by wood carving, is drawn by his spunky but angry friend, Sistine, into a plan to free a caged tiger
Author: DiCamillo, Kate.
what_elephants_know
ISBN: 9781484728543
Title: What elephants know by Eric Dinerstein - In the threatened jungle of the Borderlands between Nepal and India during the 1970s, an orphaned boy discovers his fate as a great elephant driver
Author: Dinerstein, Eric, 1952-
misty_of_chincoteague
ISBN: 9780027436228
Title: Misty of Chincoteague by Margerite Henry - A breed of wild horses inhabit an island, and one is befriended and tamed by the love of two children
Author: Henry, Marguerite, 1902-1997 author.
warriors_into_the_wild
ISBN: 0060000023
Title: Into the wild by Erin Hunter - Rusty, a bored house kitten, is apprenticed by the ThunderClan and must struggle to fit in when the group of feral cats is threatened by the enemy ShadowClan
Author: Hunter, Erin.
ben_and_me
ISBN: 9781439550151
Title: Ben and me : a new and astonishing life of Benjamin Franklin as written by his good mouse Amos by Robert Lawson - Benjamin Franklin’s companion Amos the Mouse recounts how he was responsible for Franklin’s inventions and discoveries
Author: Lawson, Robert, 1892-1957.
rain_reign
ISBN: 9780312643003
Title: Rain reign by Ann M. Martin - Struggling with Asperger's syndrome, Rose shares an inseparable bond with her beloved dog, but when the dog goes missing during a storm, she is forced to confront the limits of her comfort levels
Author: Martin, Ann M., 1955- author.
Shiloh
ISBN: 9780689316142
Title: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor - 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. The owner is a mean-spirited man known to mistreat his dogs
Author: Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds.
Pax
ISBN: 9780062377029
Title: Pax by Sara Pennypacker - After being forced to give up his pet fox, Pax, a young boy named Peter decides to leave home and get his best friend back
Author: Pennypacker, Sara, 1951- author.
the_cricket_in_times_square
ISBN: 0374316503
Title: The cricket in Times Square by George Selden - The adventures of a country cricket who unintentionally arrives in New York and is befriended by Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat
Author: Selden, George, 1929-
stuart_little
ISBN: 0060263962
Title: Stuart Little by E. B. White - After being adopted by a human family, a tiny mouse sets out to win over his resentful new brother and the family feline, while fending off a gang of cats who want him out of the house
Author: White, E.B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985.