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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 31
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English
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A tale reminiscent of "Hamlet" that also celebrates the alliance between humans and dogs follows speech-disabled Wisconsin youth Edgar, who bonds with three yearling canines and struggles to prove that his sinister uncle is responsible for his father's death.
2) Shiver
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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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.
3) Zoo
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Series
Zoo novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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All over the world, brutal 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 becomes terrifyingly clear. With the help of ecologist Chloe Tousignant, Oz races to warn world leaders before it is too late. The attacks are growing in ferocity, cunning, and planning, and soon there...
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Dog's purpose volume 1
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Nearing the end of his life, Enzo, a dog with a philosopher's soul, tells his story of trying to bring together the family who have been pulled apart by a three year custody battle between daughter Zoe's maternal grandparents and her father Denny, a race car driver.
6) Ape house
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “propulsive” (Entertainment Weekly) novel “full of heart, hope, and compelling questions about who we really are” (Redbook) from the acclaimed author of At the Water’s Edge and Water for Elephants
“Terrific: an incisive piece of social commentary.”—The New York Times Book Review
Isabel...
“Terrific: an incisive piece of social commentary.”—The New York Times Book Review
Isabel...
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Dog's purpose volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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,...
9) Life of Pi
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
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,...
10) Linger
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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As Grace hides the vast depth of her love for Sam from her parents and Sam struggles to release his werewolf past and claim a human future, a new wolf named Cole wins Isabel's heart but his own past threatens to destroy the whole pack.
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2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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The world used to be crowded before all the people went away, but Gris and his parents were never lonely on their remote island. They had each other and their dogs. Then the thief came. There may be no laws left, but if someone steals your dog, you can expect someone to come after you, because what's the point of love if you're not loyal.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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“Readers new to the work of Christopher Moore will want to know two things immediately. First: Where has this guy been hiding? (Answer: In plain sight, since he has a cult following.)...[H]e writes laid back fables straight out of Margaritaville, on the cusp of humor and science fiction.”—Janet Maslin, New York Times
Whale researcher Nathan Quinn has a problem. It's not a new problem; in fact, it's been around for nearly
...13) Forever
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Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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A human girl and her werewolf boyfriend must fight for their love as death comes closing in.
14) Sinner
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Cole St. Clair has come to California for one reason: to get back Isabel Culpeper.
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Discworld (Young adult) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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A talking cat, intelligent rats, and a strange boy cooperate in a Pied Piper scam until they try to con the wrong town and are confronted by a deadly evil rat king.
16) The crossing
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Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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In The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time give us a work that is darker and more visionary, a novel with the unstoppable momentum of a classic western and the elegaic power of a lost American myth. In the late 1930s, sixteen-year-old Billy Parham captures a she-wolf that has been marauding his family's ranch. But instead of killing it, he decides to take it back to the mountains of Mexico....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Few writers have attempted to explore the natural history of a particular animal by adopting the animal's own sensibility. But Verlyn Klinkenborg-with his deeply empathetic relation to the world around him-has done just that, and done it brilliantly, in Timothy; or Notes of an Abject Reptile.This is the story of a tortoise whose real life was observed by the eighteenth-century English curate Gilbert White, author of The Natural History of Selborne....
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Cottage tales of Beatrix Potter volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Nationally best-selling author Susan Wittig Albert cleverly blends fact and fiction in this cozy mystery starring iconic author Beatrix Potter. The serenity of Hill Top Farm is shattered when a local shephard is murdered. Beatrix-when she's not busy making friends with her fellow villagers-lends her insights to the investigation.
19) Fell
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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In Transylvania during the Middle Ages, Fell, a lone wolf with unusual abilities, learns that his destiny is entwined with that of one human, fifteen-year-old Alina, whose mysterious origins have villagers believing she is a changeling.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Amy Redwing is the founder of a California organization that rescues abandoned and endangered golden retrievers. Amy risks her life to save Nickie and takes her into her home. The bond between Amy and Nickie is immediate and uncanny. Even her two other goldens, Fred and Ethel, recognize Nickie as special, a natural alpha. But the instant joy Nickie brings is shadowed by a series of eerie incidents. An ominous stranger. A mysterious home invasion.