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1) Black Beauty
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story
2) Shiloh
Author
Series
Shiloh quartet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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
4) Shadow horse
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Jas tries to prove that the owner of the farm where she works has killed her favorite horse, Whirlwind
Author
Series
Publisher
Pony/Stabenfeldt
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Times are tough at Mercy Ranch, Carlotta Mancini's stable for retired or abused horses. This means, unfortunately, that Carlotta has to sell a few horses, starting with Sheila, a beautiful Black Forest Shire mare. In doing so she's going to break the heart of Sheila's caretaker, Cheryl, and set off a chain reaction of events that will rock the world of all the kids and horses at Mercy Ranch. Will peace ever be restored? Once Ricki, Diablo and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"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,...
Author
Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When she confronts a screaming raccoon that may or may not be a ghost, animal control officer Francine Poulet questions her abilities.
9) The darling
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in Liberia and the United States from 1975 through 1991, The Darling is the story of Hannah Musgrave, a political radical and member of the Weather Underground. Hannah flees America for West Africa, where she and her Liberian husband become friends of the notorious warlord and ex-president, Charles Taylor. Hannah's encounter with Taylor ultimately triggers a series of events whose momentum catches Hannah's family in its grip and forces her to...
10) Dog eat dog
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Lawyer Andy Carpenter and his golden retriever, Tara, work to free a man who risked it all to help a dog in need. Lawyer Andy Carpenter and his wife, Laurie, enjoy walking their dogs, Tara and Sebastian. By this point in their marriage, it's routine. When out for one of their strolls, their simple ritual isn't so simple anymore. Across the street, a man is mistreating his dog. Three things happen at once: Andy yells, Laurie runs to stop the abuse,...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixth-grader Rusty, determined to help an injured dog that is chained outdoors in frigid weather, calls animal control, then takes matters into his own hands, aided by his best friend and a ghost collie that leads Rusty to an even deeper secret. Includes instructions for knitting cat blankets
Author
Publisher
Pony Club/Stabenfeldt
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Ricki's life is sometimes difficult, with her father's nagging her about grades and her mother's preoccupation with work, but the teenager's main concern is Diablo, a horse who is being seriously mistreated by his owner
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adapted from the beloved literary classic, this film is the story of Buck, a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Alaskan Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail delivery dog sled team, and later its leader, Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime, ultimately finding his true place in...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This book tells the story of survival and our powerful bond with man's best friend, in the aftermath of the nation's most notorious case of animal cruelty. Animal lovers and sports fans were shocked when the story broke about NFL player Michael Vick's brutal dog fighting operation. But what became of the dozens of dogs who survived? As the author discovered, their story is the truly newsworthy aspect of this case. Expanding on his Sports Illustrated...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
To bring in tourists, the quaint Scottish village of Braike markets its woods as The Fairy Glen, and tours soon begin to arrive. However, after a kingfisher is found hanging from a branch in the woods, the town turns to Police Constable Hamish Macbeth. And when violence strikes again, the lawman's investigation quickly turns from animal cruelty to murder.
16) The tiger rising
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Walking gthrough 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, and tigers--can't...
Author
Series
One and only Ivan stories volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
18) Lost & found
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
An unforgettable tale of love, loss, and moving on—with the help of one not-so-little dog...
After the death of her husband, Rocky flees to Peak's Island, a tiny speck off the coast of Maine, a million miles away from everything she's lost. Taking a job as an Animal Warden, Rocky meets Lloyd, a large Labrador retriever, who enters her world with a primitive arrow sticking out of his shoulder. And so begins a remarkable
...19) Shiloh
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Based on the novel by Newbery Award-winning author Phyllis Reynolds Naylor about a boy who rescues a mistreated dog from its owner
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Investigating the senseless slaughter of five moose found on the estate of a wealthy animal rights activist, Game Warden Mike Bowditch finds the controversial case turning more sinister when the activist's daughter is killed in a suspicious accident, a situation that compels Bowditch to risk everything he cares about
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