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From the author of The Jungle Book and Kim, Just So Stories is the perfect combination of education and fun to get kids to love reading. It is considered not only a quintessential children's book, but one of Kipling's best works.
How did the elephant get its trunk? How did the leopard get its spots? And how was the alphabet made? Rudyard Kipling's classic collection of fables answers the great questions of animal and humankind in a fun, eloquent...
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Harvard grad student Dulcie and two "enchanting" cats must solve the mysteries of a missing manuscript, a mistaken identity—and murder (Publishers Weekly).
Harvard grad student Dulcie Schwartz doesn't want to believe that a book could be haunted. But ever since an eleventh-century manuscript, the Dunster Codex, went missing from the rare book collection, strange and terrible things have started happening. One of
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Love runs wild at the Sagebrush Flats Zoo, where a motley crew of big-hearted animals helps the most unlikely couples find love. When Katie Underwood discovers a litter of newborn cougar cubs, the last person she expects to come to the rescue is her former crush-and high school nemesis-Bowie Wilson. The worst part? He doesn't seem to remember the trouble he caused her. As a single father and owner of a cash-strapped zoo, Bowie struggles to balance...
4) Wildwood
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Wildwood chronicles volume 1
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English
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When her baby brother is kidnapped by crows, seventh-grader Prue McKeel ventures into the forbidden Impassable Wilderness--a dangerous and magical forest in the middle of Portland, Oregon--and soon finds herself involved in a war among the various inhabitants.
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Animal Books and Anne Caroll Moore
Anne of Green Gables: Further Reading
What Staff is Reading TODAY: Thanksgiving Edition
Anne of Green Gables: Further Reading
What Staff is Reading TODAY: Thanksgiving Edition
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These are the escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger.
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Cottage tales of Beatrix Potter volume 7
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2010
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English
11) The wild robot
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Wild robot volume 1
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2016
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English
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Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants.
12) Bark of night
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2019.
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"When defense lawyer Andy Carpenter's veterinarian asks to speak to him privately at the checkup of his golden retriever, Tara, the last thing Andy expects is Truman. Healthy French bulldog Truman was dropped off with instructions to be euthanized by a man everyone thought was his owner. Andy is furious. Who would want to euthanize a perfectly healthy dog? The vet also tells Andy that thanks to Truman's chip, it's discovered that the man wasn't Truman's...
13) The dog I loved
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After spending years in prison for a murder she didn't commit, Rose Collins begins to rebuild her life in Dogtown the help of Shadow, a stray dog who appears one rainy night and refuses to leave Rose's side. But when secrets from her past emerge, she must fight for the chance at redemption.
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Simon & Schuster Audio
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When recently divorced Katie Ellis and her rescue dog Bark move back in with Katie's grandmother in Florida, she becomes swept up in a reunion of her grandmother's troupe of underwater performers—finding hope and renewal in unexpected places, in this sweet novel perfect for fans of Kristan Higgins and Claire Cook.
Aspiring costume designer Katie gave up everything in her divorce to gain custody of her fearful, faithful rescue dog,...
Aspiring costume designer Katie gave up everything in her divorce to gain custody of her fearful, faithful rescue dog,...
15) Silent bite
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Andy Carpenter novels volume 22
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2020.
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"Andy Carpenter and his golden retriever, Tara, are finding that all is not calm or bright in Silent Bite, the latest Christmas mystery in this heartwarming series from bestselling author David Rosenfelt. Lawyer Andy Carpenter can finally take a breath; he's back on dry land after a family Caribbean cruise forced on him by his wife, Laurie, to get into the Christmas spirit. Of course the family's first stop is to the Tara Foundation, the dog rescue...
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Sister Jane Foxhunting mysteries volume 13
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English
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"Fox-chasing Virginians go up against a band of outsiders in this riveting new foxhunting mystery featuring "Sister" Jane Arnold and her incorrigible hounds, from New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown. "Sister" Jane Arnold tries to keep an open mind about the new townspeople who have moved in so close to the Jefferson Hunt Club--yet so far from its traditions. But soon, posted notices about noise, mistreating animals, and the cruelty of...
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Cat cafe novels volume 2
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Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"The wonderfully festive sequel to Melissa Daley's uplifting tale, Molly and the Cat Cafe. "An engaging, pleasant read full of colorful characters with enough mentions of the cat cafe's cat's whiskers cookies and feline fancies to satisfy any appetite for a gentle, heartwarming story." -- BiblioManiac on Molly and the Cat Cafe "Hopeful and joyous." --Screen Wipe on Molly and the Cat Cafe The town of Stourton-on-the-Hill has its very own cat café....
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44 Scotland Street volume 5
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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44 SCOTLAND STREET - Book 5
The residents and neighbors of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinburgh come to vivid life in these gently satirical, wonderfully perceptive serial novels, featuring six-year-old Bertie, a remarkably precocious boy—just ask his mother.
Featuring all the quirky characters we have come to know and love, The Unbearable Lightness of Scones, finds Bertie, the precocious six-year-old,...
The residents and neighbors of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinburgh come to vivid life in these gently satirical, wonderfully perceptive serial novels, featuring six-year-old Bertie, a remarkably precocious boy—just ask his mother.
Featuring all the quirky characters we have come to know and love, The Unbearable Lightness of Scones, finds Bertie, the precocious six-year-old,...
19) Rescued
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"When a truck carrying over seventy dogs from the South to the northeast turns up with a murdered driver, defense lawyer Andy Carpenter can't help but get involved. He's eager to help the dogs, many of whom come to Tara Foundation to await adoption. It's the accused murderer he has a problem defending. It's his wife's tall, good-looking, ex-Marine ex-fiancé"--From the publisher's web site.
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Penguin Books
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[2020]
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English
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"From the green countryside of England and the gray canyons of Wall Street come two unlikely heroes: one a pigeon and the other a soldier. Answering the call to serve in the war to end all wars, neither Cher Ami, the messenger bird, nor Charles Whittlesey, the Army officer, can anticipate how their lives will briefly intersect in a chaotic battle in the forests of France, where their wills will be tested, their fates will be shaped, and their lives...
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