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After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago. Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but...
2) Ape house
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When a family of bonobo apes who know American Sign Language are kidnapped from a language laboratory, their mysterious appearance on a reality TV show propels scientist Isabel Duncan, together with reporter John Thigpen, on a personal mission to rescue them. An entertaining book that calls into question our assumptions about these animals who share 99.4% of our DNA.
3) Zoo
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Series
Zoo volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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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.
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Dog's purpose volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Searching for his purpose over the course of multiple canine lives, Bailey is reborn as a golden-haired puppy after a tragic death as a stray and shares a loving bond with young Ethan before he again dies and starts over.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive. Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them--not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her. His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys,...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"From the internationally bestselling author of A Dog's Purpose and A Dog's Way Home comes Love, Clancy: Diary of a Good Dog, a deeply moving story with a brand-new cast of characters, including one very good dog. You've probably never met someone like Clancy. He's keeping a diary, he's falling in love, there are rivals for his affections, he lives with his best friend and his worst enemy - even taken together, these factors are maybe not that unusual,...
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Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Lucas Ray is shocked when an adorable puppy jumps out of an abandoned building and into his arms. Though the apartment he shares with his mother, a disabled veteran, doesn't allow dogs, Lucas can't resist taking Bella home. Bella is inexplicably drawn to Lucas, even if she doesn't understand the necessity of games like No Barks. As it becomes more difficult to hide her from the neighbors, Lucas begins to sneak Bella into the VA where he works. There,...
8) Fire and ice
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Spirit animals volume 4
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Scholastic Inc
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IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan, supported by their spirit animals, follow a lead in the cold North only to arrive in a deceptively beautiful village where everything is not as it seems.
9) Zoo 2
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Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
With the planet still under attack by vicious animals, humans begin evolving into a barbaric species that has the power to save civilization--or destroy it.
10) Shiver
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity.
11) You?
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Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
A lonely girl and a stray dog find one another in a park.
12) Black Cloud
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Despite the dangers, Black Cloud enjoys his life as a wild mustang colt in 1951 Nevada but when humans round up and slaughter his herd, he is rescued by a talkative girl named Annie who gives him a safe and comfortable life, lacking nothing but freedom.
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"First came the pandemic, then came The Calamity. The few remaining humans are huddled in impoverished villages. The animals, meanwhile, have convened a gathering, each group sending a representative to debate and vote on whether to help the last human stragglers... or to kill and eat them. As each animal makes its case, the fate of humanity depends on whether each species will act in its own self-interest, or if they will follow the lead of the kindly...
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Cyrus Mills volume 1
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English
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After fifteen years, Dr. Cyrus Mills returns to rural Vermont to inherit the Bedside Manor for Sick Animals, the failing veterinary practice of his recently deceased and long-estranged father. Cyrus, a veterinary pathologist far more comfortable with cold clinical facts than living, breathing animals (not to mention their quirky, demanding owners), intends to sell the practice and get out of town as fast as he can. Then his first patient - a down-on-her-luck...
15) Blood ties
Author
Series
Spirit animals volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
It is springtime, and two outcasts--a man ignored, even shunned by his village, and the one-eyed dog he takes into his quiet, tightly shuttered life--find each other, by accident or fate, and forge an unlikely connection. As their friendship grows, their small, seaside town suddenly takes note of them, falsely perceiving menace where there is only mishap; the unlikely duo must take to the road.
17) My snake Blake
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The extremely long, bright green snake a boy receives from his father as an early birthday present proves to be incredibly smart and talented.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"The Elephant of Belfast chronicles a seven-month period of time when the Germans unexpectedly bombed Belfast, Northern Ireland, also known as the Belfast Blitz. Through the lens of the Bellevue Zoo and one of its zookeepers, twenty-year-old Hettie Quin, the novel animates how the war irrevocably impacted-and shaped the lives of Belfast's citizens in broad and intimate ways. In October 1940, Hettie meets Violet, a three-year-old Asian elephant arriving...
Author
Series
Cat Cafe volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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