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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"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,...
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The author presents a collection of three animal-themed essays. In The Toad, the Turtle, and the Duck, a group of complete strangers bitterly discuss the order of things within the animal kingdom. In Hello Kitty, a miserable alcoholic cat attends AA. In The Squirrel and the Chipmunk, two lovers are torn apart by their quarrelling families.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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"A family of wolves takes a little boy into their home in the jungle. The child learns and plays with the other cubs. But can he really live in the jungle? Will the other wolves want him to stay? And will the dangerous tiger Shere Khan catch him?"--P. [4] of cover.
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"Whenever you hear the sky rumble, that usually means a storm. In Virgil Flowers' case, make that two. The exceptional new thriller from the writer whose books are "pure reading pleasure" (Booklist) The first storm comes from, of all places, the Minnesota zoo. Two large, and very rare, Amur tigers have vanished from their cage, and authorities are worried sick that they've been stolen for their body parts. Traditional Chinese medicine prizes those...
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English
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Montana wilderness guide Angie Powell wants nothing to do with ex-soldier Dare Callahan, especially as she blames him for her failing business. But she has to put her feelings to one side when they are suddenly thrust together to stop an animal with a thirst for blood--of a human variety.
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Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey--named Beatrice and Virgil--and the epic journey they undertake together.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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The escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
Description
A novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there...
10) Wrath
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English
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In a future much nearer than you think, where scientific experimentation is exploited for commercial profit, unwisely under-supervised cutting-edge technology creates a menace that threatens the very fabric of human existence. Sammy, a lab rat instilled with human genes and supersized intelligence, escapes into the world outside the lab where he, aware of humankind's cruelty in the name of science, has the potential to sire a rodent army capable of...
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Chester Cricket volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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When Chester, a very musical cricket, visits New York, he brings business to Mario's newsstand.
14) The jungle books
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English
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The adventures of Mowgli, man-child, reared by the jungle wolf packs and educated by wild animals. Includes other classic jungle stories by Kipling.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
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English
Description
Orwell's world famous satire on dictatorship told through a story about the happenings of an English country farm and the animal inhabitants who find it their duty to rebel against the sometimes cruel owner and prove themselves every bit mankind's intellectual equal.
17) Zoo
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Zoo novels volume 1
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English
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In James Patterson's pulse-racing New York Times bestseller, violent animal attacks are destroying entire cities-and two unlikely heroes must save the world before it's too late.
All over the world, brutal animal attacks are crippling entire cities. Jackson Oz, a young biologist, watches the escalating events with an increasing sense of dread. When he witnesses a coordinated lion ambush in Africa, the enormity of the violence to come...
All over the world, brutal animal attacks are crippling entire cities. Jackson Oz, a young biologist, watches the escalating events with an increasing sense of dread. When he witnesses a coordinated lion ambush in Africa, the enormity of the violence to come...
18) Charlotte's web
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
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Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him.
19) Clever duck
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the pigs start picking on all the other farm animals, Damaris, who is a very clever duck, and her best friend, Rory the sheepdog, find a way to exact revenge, only to find their plot backfiring.
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