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1) The darling
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English
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Set in Liberia and the United States from 1975 through 1991, The Darling is the story of Hannah Musgrave, a political radical and member of the Weather Underground. Hannah flees America for West Africa, where she and her Liberian husband become friends of the notorious warlord and ex-president, Charles Taylor. Hannah's encounter with Taylor ultimately triggers a series of events whose momentum catches Hannah's family in its grip and forces her to...
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English
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Best-selling author George Pelecanos takes listeners into the mean streets of Washington D.C. in his latest thought-provoking work of crime fiction. Lorenzo Brown has just been released from prison. Once the member of a brutal gang, he has vowed to change his life for the better. But his new job brings him face-to-face with the members of his old crew on a daily basis-and now it looks like he may be caught in the midst of a brewing turf war.
3) Rabbit race
Author
Series
Animal ark pets volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A young girl and boy befriend an orphaned rabbit.
Author
Series
Go Diego Go! volume 10
Publisher
Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Diego and his new friend, Medina, cross the Egyptian desert to save the thirsty camels.
6) Sun kissed
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Series
Kendrick/Coulter/Harrigan series volume 7
Language
English
Description
When Samantha Harrigan attends the local rodeo, she doesn't expect to wind up in jail. But that's precisely what happens when she tries to stop a drunkard from abusing his horse. At least she isn't alone. Tucker Coulter, a handsome local veterinarian, comes to her defense-and is arrested too. The charges are dropped, but Sam's troubles have only started. Her champion quarter horses are falling ill and the culprit is poison. As the insurance beneficiary,...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, that is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack. White Fang is the story of a wolf-dog who is befriended by a kind man
8) Lost & found
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"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... Rocky, a quirky and fallible character, discovers the healing...
9) Dirt
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Eleven-year-old Yonder stopped talking when her mother died, and she stopped going to school because of the bullies, knowing that her father would never even notice (although the social worker did); indeed the only creature that seems to care about her is the one-eyed Shetland pony called Dirt who lives on the neighboring farm--so when she discovers that Dirt is about to be sold for horsemeat she is determined to find a way to save him.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When men find gold in the frozen North of Canada, they need dogs - big, strong dogs to pull the sledges on the long journeys to and from the gold mines. Buck is stolen from his home in the South and sold as a sledge-dog. He has to learn a new way of life - how to work in harness, how to stay alive in the ice and the snow and how to fight. Because when a dog falls down in a fight, he never gets up again.
12) Dog eat dog
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Series
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English
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Lawyer Andy Carpenter and his golden retriever, Tara, work to free a man who risked it all to help a dog in need Lawyer Andy Carpenter and his wife, Laurie, enjoy walking their dogs, Tara and Sebastian. By this point in their marriage, it's routine. Whenout for one of their strolls, their simple ritual isn't so simple anymore. Across the street, a man is mistreating his dog. Three things happen at once: Andy yells, Laurie runs to stop the abuse, and...
Author
Series
Animal ark volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1998, c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A young girl befriends an orphaned badger cub.
14) Fox in the frost
Author
Series
Animal ark volume 18
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000, c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Can Mandy and James save the foxes from being injured...or worse?.
15) Pets' party
Author
Series
Animal Ark pets volume 17
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2001], c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Mandy and James try to convince their friend Max's grandmother Mrs. Trigg not to send Max's dog to a kennel over the Christmas holidays.
Author
Series
Animal ark volume 32
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2004], c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Mandy and James become concerned for the safety of a stray cat and her kittens after they move into a trailer on the campsite of Sam Western, a man known for his lack of patience with animals. .
18) Wild horses
Author
Series
Horses of Half Moon Ranch volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A sudden storm causes an landslide which traps Kirstie Scott in Dead Man's Canyon with a herd of wild horses, but when she sees that the herd's leader has been injured Kirstie races to find a safety, and a way to help the injured stallion.
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