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Animals

Happy Kitty, Bunny, Pony

Michael J. Nelson

Illustrations and text celebrate Americans' obsession with all things sweet, cute, and fluffy.

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A Fast and Brutal Wing

Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson

A story told through e-mails, newspaper articles, and short story excerpts, in which Niki, a teenaged girl abandoned by her father, believes that she and her brother can transform themselves into a ca

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Every Living Thing

Cynthia Rylant

Twelve stories in which animals change people's lives for the better.

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Animal Poems

A selection of 136 poems about animals, from cats and dogs to insects, fish and fowl, and wild beasts.

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Eva

Peter Dickinson

After a terrible accident, a young girl wakes up to discover that she has been given the body of a chimpanzee.

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Animal Farm

George Orwell

A political satire in which animals take over running a farm but find their utopian state turning into a dictatorship.

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Who Has Seen the Beast?

Anne Schraff

When the Marin family head to Owl Lake for a peaceful week-end, they didn't expect what was waiting in the woods.

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El Cachorrito De Arturo

Marc Tolon Brown

Arthur's new puppy causes problems when it tears the living room apart, wets on everything, and refuses to wear a leash.

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Flocon Trouve Un Ami

Marcus Pfister

While looking for spring, Flocon the little hare, meets some new animal friends.

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Bugs for Lunch =

Margery Facklam

Rhyming bilingual text introduces bug-eating animals such as geckos, trout, or even people. Includes additional facts about each creature.

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