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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
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Description
Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it at all. Instead, Ivan thinks about TV shows he's seen and about his friends Stella, an elderly elephant, and Bob, a stray dog. But mostly Ivan thinks about art and how to capture the taste of a mango or...
3) Shiloh
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
5) Black Beauty
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
7) Lost & found
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Rocky's husband Bob was just forty-two when she discovered him lying cold and lifeless on the bathroom floor, and Rocky's world changed forever. Quitting her job, chopping off all her hair, she leaves Massachusetts, reinventing her past and taking a job as Animal Control Warden on Peak's Island, a tiny speck off the coast of Maine and a million miles away from everything she's lost. She leaves her career as a psychologist behind, only to find friendship...
Author
Series
Puppy patrol volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
Keep your animals calm and safe with Temple Grandin's groundbreaking insights and methods, now tailored specifically for small farms. Understand the behavior, fears, and instincts of cattle, goats, pigs, and sheep, and set up the most humane, healthy, and productive systems and facilities on your farm.--COVER.
12) The humane economy: how innovators and enlightened consumers are transforming the lives of animals
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
From the leader of the nation's most powerful animal-protection organization comes a frontline account of how conscience and creativity are driving a revolution in American business that is changing forever how we treat animals and create wealth. Wayne Pacelle of the Humane Society of the United States reveals how entrepreneurs, Fortune 500 CEOs, world-class scientists, philanthropists, and a new class of political leaders are driving the burgeoning,...
Author
Series
Animal Ark volume 28
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
Mandy Hope begins to have suspicions about a local breeder after her Dad diagnoses an Old English sheepdog puppy as deaf at Animal Ark and then finds another sheepdog puppy abandoned and weak.
14) Scout
Author
Series
Puppy place volume 7
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
Charles and Lizzie try to find a perfect owner for a puppy named Scout, who likes to help people.
Author
Publisher
BowTie Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
After the Finish Line is a shocking expose detailing how nearly 50,000 horses are slaughtered annually in America; how a law before the United States Congress would end it; and how hundreds of individuals are devoting their lives to rescuing and retraining horses so they don't end up on a dinner table in Europe or Asia.
Author
Publisher
Dogwise Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In the world of dogs, there is now more awareness than ever of the need to provide enrichment, especially in shelters. But what exactly is enrichment? The concept is pretty straightforward: Learn what your dog's needs are, and then structure an environment and routine that allows them to engage in behaviors they find enriching, while offering them opportunities to perform their natural or instinctual behaviors. Aside from the limitations we have...
19) Stealing Thunder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
Libby visits her neighbor's spirited horse Thunder every day, grooming and riding him, and when Mr. Porter starts to abuse Thunder she decides to steal him away to safety, with the help of her new friend Griff.
20) Fight for life
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
With the help of her veterinarian grandmother and the other volunteers at the Wild at Heart Animal Clinic, eleven-year-old Maggie rescues sick puppies from an illegal puppy mill.