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1) Airborn
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.
Author
Series
Wild robot volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
After being captured by the Recons and returned to civilization for reprogramming, Roz is sent to Hilltop Farm where she befriends her owner's family and animals, but pines for her son, Brightbill.
6) Max
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
770L
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.
Author
Series
Underland chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
In his second adventure, eleven-year-old Gregor returns to the world beneath New York City to rescue his kidnapped sister, Boots, and fulfill a prophecy that will restore peace to the people, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders who populate the underworld.
Author
Series
Underland chronicles volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Gregor returns to the world beneath New York City, where he joins forces with Princess Lexa and Ripred the rat to defend the Underlanders and the Nibblers from the army led by the adolescent rat king, the Bane.
Author
Language
English
Description
This book explores the frontiers of research on animal cognition and emotion, offering a surprising examination into the hearts and minds of wild and domesticated animals. Have you ever wondered what it is like to be a fish? Or a parrot, dolphin, or an elephant? Do they experience thoughts that are similar to ours, or have feelings of grief and love? These are tough questions, but scientists are answering them. They know that ants teach and rats...
12) Marlfox
Author
Series
Redwall volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
When three young residents of Redwall Abbey go on a quest to recover a tapestry stolen by the Marlfoxes, their bravery removes the curse of these evil animals on a lost island.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A squirrel in the garden. A rat in the wall. A pigeon on the street. Humans have spent so much of our history drawing a hard line between human spaces and wild places. When animals pop up where we don't expect or want them, we respond with fear, rage, or simple annoyance. It's no longer an animal. It's a pest. At the intersection of science, history, and narrative journalism, Pests is not a simple call to look closer at our urban ecosystem. It's...
17) The menagerie
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
"Hidden in the small town of Xanadu, Wyoming, there is a menagerie filled with mythical creatures like unicorns, dragons, and phoenixes. It's closely guarded. Tightly controlled. Top secret. And six griffin cubs have just escaped"--Book Jacket.
18) The hiccupotamus
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 420L
Language
English
Description
A hippopotamus' hiccups disrupt the lives of the animals around him so they turn to a wide variety of antidotes to solve his dilemma.
Author
Publisher
Search Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
It's easy to knit this charming, fun mini safari park, with animals from tigers to tapirs and penguins to pandas. There's a knitted mat to put all the creatures on, an arched gateway and an off-road vehicle and a camper van to vist the park.