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The Taken

Inbali Iserles - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

The first book in a thrilling fantasy trilogy starring one of the animal kingdom's most hunted heroes. Foxcraft is full of excitement and heart, and a touch of magic. Isla and her brother are two young foxes living just outside the lands of the furless -- humans. The life of a fox is filled...
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Tiger Boy

Mitali Perkins - Charlesbridge
Format: Hardcover

When a tiger cub goes missing from the reserve, Neel is determined to find her before the greedy Gupta gets his hands on her to kill her and sell her body parts on the black market. Neels parents, however, are counting on him to study hard and win a prestigious scholarship to study in Kolkata....
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Old Wolf

Avi - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Hunting - the predator and its prey - is at the heart of this riveting and suspenseful novel from Newbery Medalist Avi with illustrations from Caldecott Medalist Brian Floca.In the computer game world of Bow Hunter - thirteen-year-old Casey's world - there are no deaths, just kills. In Nashoba's...
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Red River Stallion

Troon Harrison - Bloomsbury USA Childrens; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

When her mother dies, Rose is left feeling completely alone in the world, but the promise of a new friendship arrives on an English ship. Fireway, a red stallion, has made the long trip to North America and Rose falls in love with his beauty instantly. The horse is headed on a westward...
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Buddy

M.H. Herlong - Viking Books for Young Readers; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A classic boy-and-dog tale in the tradition of Old Yeller Tyrone Lil T Roberts meets Buddy when his familys car accidentally hits the stray dog on their way to church. Buddy turns out to be the dog Lil Ts always wished for--until Hurricane Katrina comes to New Orleans and he must leave...
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Shadow

Michael Morpurgo - Feiwel & Friends; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Author of War Horse, and bestselling storyteller Michael Morpurgo touched our hearts with this beautiful story of a boy, his lost dog, and the lengths he would go to be reunited. This timely story of battle-scarred Afghanistan delivers a masterful portrait of war, love, and friendship....
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A Dog Called Homeless

Sarah Lean - Katherine Tegen Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Praised by Newbery Medal-winning author Katherine Applegate as "graceful" and "miraculous," this Schneider Family Book Award-winning novel tells how one girl's friendship with a homeless dog mends a family's heart.Cally Fisher knows she can see her dead mother,...
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Malcolm At Midnight

W H Beck - Clarion Books
Format: Paperback

When Malcolm the rat arrives as the pet at McKenna School, he revels in the attention. He also meets the Midnight Academy, a secret society of classroom pets that keeps the nutters (kids) safe. Theres just one problem: Rats have a terrible reputation! So when the Academys iguana leader...
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Little Dog, Lost

Marion Dane Bauer - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

FromNewbery Honoree Marion Dane Bauer comes the tale of a boy who needs a dog, and a dog who needs a boya match made in heaven, if only the two can meet. Mark is a boy who needs a dog. But he cant get his mom on board with his plan. Buddy is a dog who needs a boy. Buddy has an owner already,...
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The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook

Joanne Rocklin - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover

In this warmhearted middle-grade novel, Oona and her brother, Fred, love their cat Zook short for Zucchini, but Zook is sick. As they conspire to break him out of the vets office, convinced he can only get better at home with them, Oona tells Fred the story of Zooks previous lives, ranging...
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A Dog's Way Home

Bobbie Pyron - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

After a car accident strands them at opposite ends of the Blue Ridge Parkway, eleven-year-old Abby and her beloved sheltie, Tam, overcome months filled with physical and emotional challenges to find their way back to each other.
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The Capture

Kathryn Lasky - Scholastic
Format: Paperback

GUARDIANS OF GA'HOOLE is a classic hero mythology about the fight between good and evil. This series is filled with adventure, suspense, and heart.In the first book in the GUARDIANS... series, the reader is introduced to Soren, a barn owl and the centerpiece of the series. When Soren...
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Poppy (Tales from Dimwood Forest)

Avi

Poppy the deer mouse urges her family to move next to a field of corn big enough to feed them all forever, but Mr. Ocax, a terrifying owl, has other ideas
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The Underneath

Kathi Appelt - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road. A calico cat, about to have kittens, hears the lonely howl of a chained-up hound deep in the backwaters of the bayou. She dares to find him in the forest, and the hound...
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Warriors: Into the Wild

Erin Hunter - HarperCollins; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Join the legion of fans who have made Erin Hunters Warriors series a 1 national bestseller! Epic adventures. Fierce Warrior cats. A thrilling fantasy world. It all begins here with Warriors 1 Into the Wild.For generations, four Clans of wild cats have shared the forest according to the laws...
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Storm Chaser

Chris Platt - Peachtree
Format: Print book

For thirteen-year-old Jessie, living with her family on the dusty Wild Hawk Ranch in Nevada can be a bit lonely. Her friend Marybeth lives a few miles away, but she's two years younger than Jessie and she can sometimes be a pest.But Jessie loves the horses her father and brother break...
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Dolphin Song

Lauren St John - Dial Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

The heart-pounding companion to the #1 Children?s Book Sense Pick The White Giraffe. Just as Martine is settling into life at Sawubona, the wildlife game reserve, with her grandmother and Jemmy, her white giraffe, she must leave for two weeks on a school trip off the coast of South Africa....
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A Good Horse: Book Two of the Horses of Oak Valley Ranch

Jane Smiley - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

When eighth grader Abby Lovitt looks out at those pure-gold rolling hills, she knows there’s no place she’d rather be than her family’s ranch—even with all the hard work of tending to nine horses. But some chores are no work at all, like grooming young Jack. At eight...
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Webster: Tale of an Outlaw

Ellen Emerson White - Aladdin Paperbacks
Format: Hardcover

A cynical shelter dog learns to let down his guard and form a new animal family in this heartwarming and humorous friendship story from the author of Santa Paws.Webster is too cool to be scared. Or alarmed. Or even a tiny bit nervous. So what if no one will adopt him? He's had it with...
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