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2) Odder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Odder spends her days off the coast of central California, practicing her underwater acrobatics and spinning the quirky stories for which she's known. She's a fearless daredevil, curious to a fault. But when Odder comes face-to-face with a hungry great white shark, her life takes a dramatic turn, one that will challenge everything she believes about herself--and about the humans who hope to save her"--
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"From Newbery Honor Winner Cynthia Lord, a brilliant story about how to find home when everything around us is changing. Mia and her mom visit Grandma in Maine every summer, but this year Mia is going alone. Her mom will stay behind to get their house ready to sell. It’ll be a new start, she says, after the divorce. Mia doesn’t want a new start. She’d rather everything just stayed the same! At least things will be the same at Grandma’s,...
Author
Series
Critter club volume 11
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As her friends in the Critter Club animal shelter care for colorful aquarium fish, second-grader Liz and her family spend a long weekend at the beach, where Liz rescues a baby octopus and competes with an unfriendly young neighbor in a sand castle contest.
8) Bird house
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A little girl and her abuela tend to an injured bird they find in the snow, allowing it to fly around the living room until it is ready to be released.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When a baby albino dolphin caught in old fishing netting washes ashore, Paralympics sailing hopeful Felix and English school girl Kara work with veterinarians and specialists to save and reunite the dolphin with her mother, setting off a chain of events that might just save the reef from the environmental effects of proposed dredging.
10) Old Pearl
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After Theo rescues an old, injured bird he names Pearl, he persuades his grandmother they should take care of her, and their special bond grows until Pearl passes away.
Author
Series
Wind Riders volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After discovering Wind Rider, an abandoned magical sailboat, Max and Sofia arrive on a beach in Hawaii where, with new friend Laila, they rescue newly-hatched sea turtles. Includes facts about sea turtles.
Author
Series
Wind Riders volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"On their second adventure aboard Wind Rider, Max and Sofia travel to the Amazon rain forest to protect scarlet macaws from poachers and deforestation"--
13) The otter
Author
Series
Lighthouse family volume 6
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A family of animals that lives in a lighthouse helps an otter, whose sister is trapped in an old fishing net.
Author
Series
Secret explorers volume 5
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Secret Explorers head to the Borneo rainforest on a mission to rescue a lost baby orangutan. Along the way, they learn about threats to the rainforest--especially from greedy plantation owners to want to cut down the rainforest to expand palm oil production.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
A little girl and her abuela tend to an injured bird they find in the snow, allowing it to fly around the living room until it is ready to be released.
Una nįa y su abuela atienden a un p̀jaro herido que encuentran en la nieve, permitǐndole volar por la sala hasta que esť listo para ser liberado.
16) South
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When a lonely fisherman finds an injured bird on his boat, he nurtures it back to health, and--since the bird can no longer migrate with its family--charts a course heading south for the winter. Together, the two form a special friendship and enjoy life at sea until both the healing process and the journey come to an end"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Liam and his mother find an injured pigeon, and his mother insists on taking it to the wildlife center, explaining that while some people think of pigeons as pests, every animal deserves care, respect, and a place in the world.
Author
Series
Critter club volume 23
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Liz and her friends are spending a fall weekend at the cabin at Marigold Lake, planning to bake pies and enjoy nature, but Lizzie forgets to put sugar in her berry pie--a mistake which proves fortuitous when she needs a lot of berries to feed a migrating goose who has fallen behind his flock.
Author
Series
Unicorn Rescue Society volume 3
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Elliot and his friend Uchenna join Professor Fauna as they travel to the Pacific Northwest and help keep a sasquatch family safe from a pack of journalists and a logging company"--
20) Of a feather
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A baby great horned owl, Second, so called because his sister, First, is already out of the nest, is reluctant to hunt for himself, but when his mother is injured he is forced out into the forest; Maureen is a human girl pulled out of her grandmother's violent home and placed with an aunt--but her Aunt Beatrice is involved in falconry and runs a mews where injured raptors can heal, and it is here Maureen and Second (now called Rufus) meet and learn...
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