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Author
Series
Vet volunteers volume 8
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Brenna, one of the volunteers at the Dr. Mac's Place animal clinic, is horrified to find a dog caught in a trap in the local nature preserve, but subsequent events prove that every story has two sides.
Author
Series
One and only Ivan stories volume 1
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it at all. Instead, Ivan thinks about TV shows he's seen and about his friends Stella, an elderly elephant, and Bob, a stray dog. But mostly Ivan thinks about art and how to capture the taste of a mango or...
4) Chained
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
To work off a family debt, ten-year-old Hastin leaves his desert village in India to work as a circus elephant keeper but many challenges await him, including trying to keep Nandita, a sweet elephant, safe from the cruel circus owner.
5) Tiger, tiger
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Two tiger cub brothers are taken from the jungle to ancient Rome, where one becomes the pampered pet of Caesar's daughter and the other becomes a man-eating "entertainment act" at the Colosseum.
6) Fox's garden
Author
Series
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An act of tender compassion is given (and repaid) in secret during an icy winter night.
"One snowy night, a fox loses its way, entering a village. Chased away by the grown ups, Fox takes shelter in a greenhouse. A little boy sees this from his window. Without hesitating, he brings a basket of food to the greenhouse, where he leaves it for the fox. His gift is noticed and the night becomes a garden of new life, nourished by compassion and kindness....
Author
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A first "person" account of a horse trained in the late nineteenth century by former slave Doc Key to read, write, and do math in performances across the country to promote kindess to animals. Includes fact sheet.
9) Shiloh
Author
Series
Shiloh quartet volume 1
Language
English
Formats
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.
10) Stolen magic
Author
Series
Unicorns of the secret stable volume 3
Publisher
Jolly Fish Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When someone discovers Rainbow Mist and wants to use her magic, Iris and Ruby must protect the unicorn magic before it is gone forever.
11) Hey, dog
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A boy cares for, feeds, and helps an abused stray dog.
12) Rosie runs
Author
Publisher
Elsewhere Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Racing greyhound Rosie escapes the confines of the racetrack and bounds towards freedom.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Webster the dog arrives at Green Meadows Farm he has already been adopted, mistreated, and given away three times and is done with people, but the other animals of the shelter will not let him give up on the possibility of a special family.
14) Lizzie!
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Lizzie, age eleven, does not let her wheelchair get in the way of her curiosity. After she is partially paralyzed in a diving accident, Lizzie and her single mom are starting life over in a small town in Florida, where Lizzie's thirst for knowledge and adventure makes her some unlikely friends and gets her into some sticky situations. Resilient and precocious, Lizzie has a passion for learning new words (especially those with Latin roots) and a propensity...
15) Uncaged: #1
Author
Series
Singular menace volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When an animal rights action at a research lab goes wrong, a terrible secret is exposed, and Shay must find her brother Odin before the researchers at Singular Corp can silence both of them"--
Author
Series
Heartland volume 18
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Language
English
Description
Amy visits her friend Carey and at first assumes that Carey needs help with her unruly horse Mustang. Later, Amy wonders why Carey is surprisingly cold towards both her and the horse.
Author
Language
English
Description
In March of 1887, Rocco, an eleven-year-old from an Italian village, arrives in New York CIty where he is forced to live in squalor and beg for money as a street musician, but he finds the city's cruelty to children and animals intolerable and sets out to make things better, whatever the cost to himself.
20) Dirt
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Yonder stopped talking when her mother died, and she stopped going to school because of the bullies, knowing that her father would never even notice (although the social worker did); indeed the only creature that seems to care about her is the one-eyed Shetland pony called Dirt who lives on the neighboring farm--so when she discovers that Dirt is about to be sold for horsemeat she is determined to find a way to save him.
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