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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Farmer Brown does not like Halloween. So he draws the shades, puts on his footy pajamas, and climbs into bed. But do you think the barnyard animals have any respect for a man in footy pajamas? No, they do not. For them, the Halloween party has just begun. And we all know these critters far prefer tricks over treats.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Orwell's world famous satire on dictatorship told through a story about the happenings of an english country farm and the animal inhabitants who find it their duty to rebel against the sometimes cruel owner and prove themselves every bit mankind's intellectual equal.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship in the Pacific, one solitary lifeboat remains, carrying a hyena, a zebra, a female orangutan, a Bengal tiger, and a 16-year-old Indian boy named Pi. His story is a dazzling work of imagination that will delight and astound listerners in equal measure. It is a triumph of storytelling and a tale that will as one character puts it, make you believe in God.
4) Zoo
Author
Series
Zoo novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Wildwood chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Prue and Curtis are thrown together again to save themselves and the lives of their friends, and to bring unity to the divided country of Wildwood"--
9) Underground
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Pulp paintings and rhyming text spotlight the underground world of burrowing, tunneling, and digging animals. Includes "Creature Indentification" page.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house transports Jack and Annie on a mission to the Ice Age where they encounter Cro-Magnons, cave bears, sabertooth tigers, and woolly mammoths.
12) Squirrel's world
Author
Series
Sticky Burr volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Squirrel's well-meaning attempts to help his forest friends do not always turn out as planned.
14) Jungle bullies
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
To get what they want, the larger jungle animals bully the smaller ones until Mama Monkey shows them all the benefits of sharing.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie away to Australia where they must save some animals from a wildfire.
16) Clip-clop
Author
Language
English
Description
When Mr. Horse gives a ride to his friends, Cat, Dog, Pig, and Duck, they urge him to go faster and faster.
18) My friends
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little girl learns to walk, climb, and study the earth from her friends, most of whom are animals.
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When millions of fish start dying off the coast of Hawaii and something is destroying hundreds of ships, the government enlists the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--to help get to the bottom of the disaster before it is too late.
20) Carnivores
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
©2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A lion, a great white shark, and a timber wolf, all meat-eaters who have been hurt by the cruelty of plant-eaters, form a support group which has limited success until their newest member, a great horned owl, shares some advice.
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