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Series
World according to Humphrey volume 3
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Humphrey, the pet hamster of Longfellow School's Room 26, relates the ups and downs experienced by his human classmates as they begin a project to create a model town complete with houses and community services.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Pet owners know that a cat's loyalty is not easily earned. Boo, a resourceful young feline with a keen eye and inquiring mind, has nonetheless grown intensely devoted to her human companion, Carrie. Several days ago, Carrie--or Mother, as Boo calls her--suddenly went away, leaving her family, including Boo, in disarray. Carrie's husband, Tommy, is distant and distracted even as he does his best to care for Boo's human siblings, especially baby Finn....
Author
Series
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
In the fifth entry in the New York Times–bestselling series, two friends come up with a crazy plan to lure wild animals home.
Bean's day is going downhill, and it's only nine in the morning. Is it her fault she licked syrup off her plate? Is it her fault Nancy's yarn got used up? Yes. Bean wonders if being good is worth the effort. Ivy says yes, that if you're really good, animals will love you and follow you home. Wow! Ivy and...
Bean's day is going downhill, and it's only nine in the morning. Is it her fault she licked syrup off her plate? Is it her fault Nancy's yarn got used up? Yes. Bean wonders if being good is worth the effort. Ivy says yes, that if you're really good, animals will love you and follow you home. Wow! Ivy and...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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When five-week-old Prudence meets a woman named Sarah in a deserted construction site on Manhattan's Lower East Side, she knows she's found the human she was meant to adopt. For three years their lives are filled with laughter, tuna, catnaps, music, and the unchanging routines Prudence craves. Then one day Sarah doesn't come home, and Laura, the daughter who hardly ever visits, arrives with her husband. And they're carrying boxes.
Author
Series
McCray Family novels volume Prequel
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
In 1962, Kansas is reeling from the worst blizzard in recent memory. During this hard time, twelve-year-old George loses his father and must quickly mature to oversee the family farm. However, when his mother and sister leave for Minnesota, George befriends Tucker, an Irish setter, and learns the facets of manhood.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"A life-affirming anthem to kindness and self-sacrifice, The Travelling Cat Chronicles shows how the smallest things can provide the greatest joy. We take journeys to explore exotic new places and to return to the comforts of home, to visit old acquaintances and to make new friends. But the most important journey is the one that shows us how to follow our hearts... An instant international bestseller, The Travelling Cat Chronicles has charmed readers...
49) The jungle book
Author
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
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Description
The adventures of Mowgli, a boy raised by the animals in an Indian jungle, are accompanied by notes and illustrations placing the stories in the context of the era.
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres and the New York Times best-selling Last Hundred Years Trilogy, a captivating, brilliantly imaginative story of three extraordinary animals-- and a young boy-- whose lives intersect in Paris Paras is a spirited racehorse at a racetrack west of Paris. At dusk, one afternoon she pushes open the door of her stall-- she's a curious filly-- and, after traveling through the night, arrives by chance...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
Cross kill: Along Came a Spider killer Gary Soneji has been dead for over ten years. Alex Cross watched him die. But today, Cross sees him gun down his partner. Is Soneji alive? A ghost? Or something even more sinister?
Zoo II: Zoo was just the beginning. The planet is still under siege by ferocious animals. Humans are their desperate prey. Except some humans are mutating into a savage species that could save civilization -- or end it.
The pretender:...
53) The burning tide
Author
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Working in separate worlds to stop the awakening Wyrm, Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan find support in a strange group of allies but will have to work quickly to locate an ancient trap that could bring about the end of the war.
54) Stay
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Impulsively buying a puppy on the Internet after the heartbreak of watching the love of her life marry another, Van is dismayed when her purchase produces a one-hundred-pound German shepherd whose unlikely friendship introduces her to a ruggedly handsome veterinarian.
55) Blood of Dragons
Author
Language
English
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Description
The Tarman expedition has at last found Kelsingra, a city filled with ancient treasures. Here, the dragons and their Elderling keepers may discover their full potential, but only if the magic of Kelsingra can be unlocked. Already rumours of the city have floated down the Rain Wild River. Adventurers, pirates and fortune hunters will soon be coming to pillage what they can. Among them, Hest Finbok, determined to claim back his errant wife, Alise. Meanwhile,...
56) The bitch
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"In Colombia's brutal jungle, childless Damaris develops an intense and ultimately doomed relationship with an orphaned puppy. Colombia's Pacific coast, where everyday life entails warding off the brutal forces of nature. In this constant struggle, nothing is taken for granted. Damaris lives with her fisherman husband in a shack on a bluff overlooking the sea. Childless and at that age 'when women dry up', as her uncle puts it, she is eager to adopt...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Pegasus Books edition.
Physical Desc
x, 223 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An Australian cattle dog named Caity must loyally protect her friend, Delia, a beautiful and talented child actress, after she falls victim to a freak accident that wreaks havoc on the entire family, who depend on her for their upscale lifestyle.
58) Devoted
Author
Language
English
Description
"Woody Bookman hasn't spoken a word in his eleven years of life. Not when his father died in a freak accident. Not when his mother, Megan, tells him she loves him. For Megan, keeping her boy safe and happy is what matters. But Woody believes a monstrous evil was behind his father's death and now threatens him and his mother. And he's not alone in his thoughts. An ally unknown to him is listening. A uniquely gifted dog with a heart as golden as his...
59) Dog boy
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A four-year-old boy named Romochka is abandoned by his mother and uncle and left to fend for himself on the streets of Moscow, with uncounted millions of homeless children and adults. He follows a stray dog to its home in a deserted church celler. There he joins Mamochka, the mother of the pack, and six other dogs and slowly he forgets his human attributes to survive two fiercely cold winters. Romochka attracts the attention of local police, street...
60) Mela
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
A rescue dog and her new owner learn how to trust each other and become a family.
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