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1) Rescue
Author
Publisher
Boyds Millls Press, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
©2018
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.
Author
Series
Whinnies on the wind volume 3
Publisher
Enchanted Pony Books
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
3) Louie
Author
Series
The puppy place. Main series volume 51
Language
English
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Description
At Loon Lake Park, Charles and his Cub Scout friends are told that a dog has been abandoned in the parking lot. Louie, a not-so-small Newfoundland puppy, is quickly taken in and cared for by the group. Can Charles and his friends find Louie a perfect, and roomy, forever home?
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English
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Twelve-year-old Winifred is being fostered by the eccentric but kind Margery Dawson while her mother is dealing with addiction problems, and mostly Fred is determined not to form any attachments to anybody--until the condition of Toby, the abused dog next door, captures first her attention and then her heart, and somehow it becomes increasingly difficult to stay detached from the people who are helping her.
5) Mist
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Language
English
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"London, 1880, 13-year-old Clay is a mud lark, one of the countless boys who survive by scavenging along the banks of the Thames. One day, while trying to sell a set of tarot cards, Clay stumbles upon Smith & Sparrow's Amazing Circus, whose menagerie boasts 'the last surviving wolf in the United Kingdom.' Wolves haven't been seen in the wild for over three centuries, so Clay can hardly believe his eyes when he meets up with the silver-coated, amber-eyed...
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Language
English
Description
"Walking through 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,...
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Language
English
Description
"The Call of the Wild," by Jack London, is one of America's best-known novels. Currently published in more than twenty separate editions in English alone, this novel about the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896 to 1899 has been continuously in print since it first appeared in 1903. Many editions of "The Call of the Wild" have distorted the original text: the violence is modified, the language is sanitized, and the punctuation and spelling are modernized....
8) Dirt
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Language
English
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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.
Author
Series
The Frankie Jackson Mysteries volume Book 1
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Mary Frances "Frankie" Jackson has been sent to California for the summer to live on a houseboat with her Aunt Roxy. There's one catch-she can't get in trouble, or it's back to New Jersey and juvenile detention camp. Too bad that days after arriving at the houseboat community, Frankie is accused of animal cruelty (killing a cat) and has two weeks to prove her innocence. In the process, she gets to know all the eccentrics on the dock....
Author
Series
Middle school (James Patterson) volume 14
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Rafe Khatchadorian is horrified that because of a missed science assignment he has to go to summer school; but instead of three weeks in a school room he finds himself a volunteer at Bushytail animal refuge, which is really hard, smelly work--and somehow he needs to use the experience (and the help of a girl he meets there) to produce a first class science report.
12) Fox's garden
Author
Series
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"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. Princesse Camcam's cut-paper illustrations, along with the beautiful lighting of the sets...
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Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
When she confronts a screaming raccoon that may or may not be a ghost, animal control officer Francine Poulet questions her abilities.
14) Moon bear
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In Laos, twelve-year-old Tam must work at a bear farm where bears are cruelly caged and milked for their bile, but when a familiar cub is brought to the farm, Tam will do anything to free both the cub, and himself.
15) Whippoorwill
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Language
English
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Description
In rural New Hampshire, sixteen-year-old Clair Taylor and her neighbor, eighteen-year-old Danny Stewart, fall into an unlikely relationship as they work together to save Wally, a lovable but mistreated dog kept chained in a junk-filled yard by Danny's cruel father.
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Series
One and only Ivan stories volume 1
Language
English
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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.
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English
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"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,...
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