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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Michael Hingson, blind since infancy, shares the story of his escape from the seventy-eighth floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, with the help of his guide dog, Roselle, and discusses how his life, faith, parents, friends, and mentors throughout the years prepared him to meet the emergency without panic.
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Series
I survived true stories volume 4
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"The author of the New York Times bestselling I Survived series shares four thrilling true stories of animals who have faced disaster--and come through. You'll meet courageous animals and also inspiring humans who show how we can help protect the creatures who share our precious Earth. Includes real-life stories about: the pigeon hero of World War I; two captured dolphins and the hero who helped them return to the sea; 20,000 penguins saved from an...
84) Darkness within
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Series
Warriors (Erin Hunter). The broken code volume 4
Warriors the broken code volume 4
Warriors. The broken code volume 4
Warriors the broken code volume 4
Warriors. The broken code volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"Exiled after a battle that left all five Clans devastated, ThunderClan's deputy, Squirrelflight, reveals the identity of the fake Bramblestar and fights for the return of the real one"--
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From the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a dreamy reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico. Carlota Moreau: A young woman growing up on a distant and luxuriant estate, safe from the conflict and strife of the Yucatǹ peninsula. The only daughter of a researcher who is either a genius or a madman. Montgomery Laughton: A melancholic overseer with a tragic past...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"Do you want to know what dogs are thinking? What they're feeling? Now you finally can. The answers will surprise and delight young readers as scientist and dog-owner Alexandra Horowitz explains how dogs perceive their daily worlds, each other, and that other quirky animal, the human."--
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Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 26
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to an African rainforest, where the siblings encounter gorillas and learn to communicate with them.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal overturns everything we thought we knew about human intelligence, and asks the question: would humans be better off as narwhals? Or some other, less brainy species? There's a good argument to be made that humans might be a less successful animal species precisely because of our amazing, complex intelligence. All our unique gifts like language, math, and science do not make us happier or more "successful" (evolutionarily...
89) Zoo
Author
Series
Zoo novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Description
As coordinated attacks by animals against humans increase and escalate, young biologist Jackson Oz and ecologist Chloe Tousignant warn world leaders that soon there will be nowhere left for humans. All over the world, brutal attacks are crippling entire cities. Oz 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 becomes terrifyingly clear. The...
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In his previous books, Katz introduced us to the menagerie at Bedlam Farm, including Izzy, the border collie rescue. Affectionate and intuitive, Izzy is unlike any dog Katz has encountered, and the two undertake a journey Katz could not have imagined without the arrival of a new companion: a spirited, bright-eyed black Labrador puppy named Lenore. As trained hospice volunteers visiting homes and nursing facilities, Katz and Izzy bring comfort to people...
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Series
Spirit animals. Main series volume 3
Pub. Date
[2014].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
As the Conquerors try to destroy Erdas, Meilin -- fed up with waiting and ready to fight -- sets off into enemy territory with her spirit animal, a panda named Jhi. Her friends Conor and Abeke aren't far behind ... but they're not the only ones.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.
93) The friend
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Appears on list
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When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of its master, and by the threat of eviction: dogs are prohibited in her apartment building. While others worry that grief has made her a victim of magical thinking, the woman...
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"Alexis Devine, creator of the wildly popular TikTok account @WhatAboutBunny with over 8.3 million followers, delivers a memoir loaded with wit and passion for animals, as well as the vulnerability and authenticity of a woman who learned to take care of herself by learning to talk to her dog"--
95) Cress Watercress
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Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"When Papa doesn't return from a nocturnal honey-gathering expedition, Cress holds out hope, but her mother assumes the worst. It's a dangerous world for rabbits, after all. Mama moves what's left of the Watercress family to the basement unit of the Broken Arms, a run-down apartment oak with a suspect owl landlord, a nosy mouse super, a rowdy family of squirrels, and a pair of songbirds who broadcast everyone's business. Can a dead tree full of annoying...
96) Stealing Thunder
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Libby visits her neighbor's spirited horse Thunder every day, grooming and riding him, and when Mr. Porter starts to abuse Thunder she decides to steal him away to safety, with the help of her new friend Griff.
98) Word of mouse
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Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"The illuminating journey of a very special mouse, and the unexpected friendships he makes along the way"--
99) A dog's promise
Author
Series
Dog's purpose volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Description
The dog who thinks of himself as 'Bailey' knows one thing for sure: all dogs go to heaven after they have fulfilled their purpose on earth. But Bailey's work on earth is far from finished, there are still so many more humans that need a dog's talent for unconditional love. There is one family in particular that needs Bailey's help, a family that is on the verge of breaking apart. But if Bailey helps this family he won't remember his previous lives,...
100) Pet sematary
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 23
Appears on list
Description
From horror's master storyteller, Stephen King, comes the classic tale--PET SEMETARY. When the Creeds move into a beautiful old house in rural Maine, it all seems too good to be true: physician father, beautiful wife, charming little daughter, adorable infant son--and now an idyllic home. As a family, they've got it all ... right down to the friendly cat. But the nearby woods hide a blood-chilling truth--more terrifying than death itself--and hideously...