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Author
Language
English
Description
As a volunteer at the San Diego Zoo in California, Margaret has been making good use of her psychic ability to communicate with animals such as Zaran, a stubborn tigress who refuses to accept her cub. Late one night, just as she shuts Zaran's cage, Margaret feels a gun in her back. John Lassiter, a former CIA operative, is prepared to use force to ensure that she joins him on a mission to rescue his mentor, CIA agent Sean Patrick. Patrick has been...
3) Penguin
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Ben is delighted to receive a penguin for his birthday but Penguin will not answer or respond to him in any way, no matter what Ben does, until, at last, they discover the language of friendship.
4) Dragonhaven
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
When Jake Mendoza, who lives in the Smokehill National Park where his father runs the Makepeace Institute of Integrated Dragon Studies, goes on his first solo overnight in the park, he finds an infant dragon whose mother has been killed by a poacher.
Author
Series
Land of Elyon volume 3
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alexa reveals the origin of the Land of Elyon while defending it against the evil Abaddon and his sinister forces, with not only the last Jocasta at stake but also the nature of the land itself.
Author
Series
Land of Elyon volume 2
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Alexa embarks on a mysterious quest, she finds her old friends Yipes the little man, Murphy the squirrel, Odessa the wolf, and Squire the hawk have been designated to help her.
7) Unsaid
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a veterinarian, Helena mercifully escorted thousands of animals to the other side. Now she has died, and found that it is not so easy to move on. Terrified that her 37 years of life were meaningless and forgettable, Helena haunts the life she left behind. Her attorney husband struggles with grief and the demands of caring for her beloved animals. But it is Helena's absence from her last project that will have the greatest impact on them all.
8) Ghost hunter
Author
Series
Chronicles of ancient darkness volume 6
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
To fulfill his destiny, Torak must defy demons and tokoroths, navigate through the Gorge of the Hidden People, and battle the evil Eagle Owl Mage.
9) Stargazer
Author
Series
Land of Elyon volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Alexa and her companions unwittingly lead Abaddon, now in the form of an enormous, horrible sea monster, to the secret community known as the Five Stone Pillars when they go to bring the people living there home.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 26
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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
Series
Land of Elyon volume 1
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When she finds the key to a secret passageway leading out of the walled city of Bridewell, twelve-year-old Alexa realizes her lifelong wish to explore the mysterious forests and mountains that lie beyond the wall.
12) Lion boy
Author
Series
Lionboy trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In the near future, a boy with the ability to speak the language of cats sets out from London to seek his kidnapped parents and finds himself on a Paris-bound circus ship learning to train lions.
Author
Series
Companions quartet volume 1
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
2007, 2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Upon moving to her aunt's seaside home in the British Isles, Connie becomes part of a secret society that shelters mythical creatures, and must use her ability to communicate with these beings to protect them from evil and the incursions of humans.
Author
Series
Lionboy trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Catspeaker Charlie Ashanti finds himself on a boat to the Caribbean where he will be sold to the Corporacy, but his parents and lion friends are in pursuit, and he is determined to outwit his captors.
Author
Series
Companions quartet volume 4
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Connie and Col band together to save the world for all creatures, including the mythical ones of which few humans are aware, from the shape-shifter Kullervo's army and, along the way, Connie finds herself transformed in an amazing way.
Author
Series
Companions quartet volume 3
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When an unknown entity forces Connie to create destructive storms, the head of the Chartmouth Chapter for the Society for the Protection of Mythical Creatures rescinds Connie's membership, leaving her on her own to discover what is happening.
Author
Series
Companions quartet volume 2
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Mallins Wood is home to the last surviving gorgon, and Col's mother, the gorgon's supernatural Companion, is determined to save it from encroaching development--even to the point of endangering Col and his best friend Connie, the most powerful Companion alive.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A single mother learns that her chronically ill son can communicate with a special dog, and the lessons this dog teaches can shape the future and transform their lives.
Dr. Kate Blunt will do anything for her son, Jasper, who has cystic fibrosis... except get him a dog. The daily medical routine that keeps Jasper alive is complicated enough, though her decision runs contrary to her work as the veterinarian in charge of a Cape Cod animal shelter....
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Based on the true story of the 1965 "dolphin house" experiment, this spellbinding novel captures the tenor of the social experiments of the 1960's in award-winning author Audrey Schulman's tightly paced and evocative style. It is 1965, and Cora, a young, hearing impaired woman, buys a one-way ticket to the island of St. Thomas, where she discovers four dolphins held in captivity as part of an experiment led by the obsessive Dr. Blum. Drawn by a strong...
20) The goose girl
Author
Series
Books of Bayern volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
On her way to marry a prince she's never met, Princess Anidori is betrayed by her guards and her lady-in-waiting and must become a goose girl to survive until she can reveal her true identity and reclaim the crown that is rightfully hers.
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