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Maybe a fox
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Description:
When her sister Sylvie goes missing on a snowy morning and is never seen again, Jules refuses to believe she is gone forever, meanwhile, in the shadow world, a shadow fox is born.
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Book
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YA FIC App
Once upon a camel
Author(s):
Appelt, Kathi, 1954-
Rohmann, Eric,
Description:
In 1910, Zada the camel treks across the West Texas desert to save two baby kestrels from an approaching haboob, a mountain-sized storm. sharing adventures from her youth in Turkey to keep them calm.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
J FIC App
The Wild Robot [Audiobook]
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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.
Format:
Audiobook
Call Number:
J FIC Bro
Fire bringer
Author(s):
Clement-Davies, David, 1961-
Description:
Among the deer, there is a prophecy: one day a fawn will be born with the mark of an oak leaf upon his forehead. This fawn will be able to understand the speech of other animals, and will free the deer from tyranny.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
YA FIC Cle
Saving Winslow
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When his father brings home an ailing, newborn donkey, Louie names the animal Winslow and takes care of him, but everyone, including Louie's quirky friend Nora, thinks Winslow is not going to survive.
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Book
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J FIC Cre
When the sky falls
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Even though the city faces nightly air raids, in 1941 Joseph is sent to London to live with the gruff Mrs F, who teaches the angry boy how to care for the remaining animals in the city zoo, including a mighty silverback gorilla named Adonis.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
J FIC Ear
Wildoak
Author(s):
Harrington, C. C.,
Sudyka, Diana,
Description:
Twelve-year-old Maggie's stutter causes her much heartache and only her menagerie of pets, whom she can speak with fluidly, provide her comfort, but when she finds Rumpus, an abandoned snow leopard, in a forest in Cornwall, their chance encounter will change their lives forever.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
J FIC Har
Me and Marvin Gardens
Author(s):
King, A. S. (Amy Sarig), 1970-
Description:
Obe Devlin spends a lot of his time cleaning up the creek that runs through what little is left of his family's once extensive farmland, and worrying about what the developers are doing nearby, and the pollution it is causing--but one day he finds a strange creature by his creek that eats plastic, and soon the animal he calls Marvin Gardens becomes his personal secret, which he believes needs to be protected from pretty much everybody.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
J FIC Kin
Of a feather
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A baby great horned owl, Second, so called because his sister, First, is already out of the nest, is reluctant to hunt for himself, but when his mother is injured he is forced out into the forest; Maureen is a human girl pulled out of her grandmother's violent home and placed with an aunt--but her Aunt Beatrice is involved in falconry and runs a mews where injured raptors can heal, and it is here Maureen and Second (now called Rufus) meet and learn how to heal each other.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
J FIC Lor
Wayward Creatures
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Description:
Gabe doesn't know where he belongs anymore. His family is caught up in their own lives and his friends barely have time for him. In a desperate move for attention. Gabe sets off fireworks in the woods near his house and causes a small forest fire. In the chaos of the destruction, a coyote named Rill finds herself far from home. Gabe and Rill's paths irrevocably cross when Gabe is tasked with cleaning up the forest. The damage to the land and both their lives is beyond what the two can imagine. But together, they discover that sometimes it only takes one friend to find the place where you belong.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
J FIC Lor
Silverwing
Author(s):
Oppel, Kenneth, 1967-
McDonough, John.
Description:
When a newborn bat named Shade but sometimes called "Runt" becomes separated from his colony during migration, he grows in ways that prepare him for even greater journeys.
Format:
Audiobook
Call Number:
J FIC Opp
A wolf called Wander
Author(s):
Parry, Rosanne
Heyborne, Kirby,
Description:
Swift, a young wolf cub, lives with his pack in the mountains. Then a rival pack attacks, and Swift and his family scatter. Alone and scared, Swift must flee and find a new home. Inspired by the extraordinary true story of a wolf named OR-7 (or Journey), this irresistible tale of survival invites listeners to experience and imagine what it would be like to be one of the most misunderstood animals on earth.
Format:
Audiobook
Call Number:
J FIC Par
Better with Butter
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Description:
Afraid of absolutely everything, 12-year-old Marvel momentarily forgets her anxiety when she rescues a fainting goat named Butter and must fight for her new friend when she is told she might have to give Butter up forever.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
J FIC Pio
Odder
Author(s):
Applegate, Katherine
Santoso, Charles,
Description:
"Odder spends her days off the coast of central California, practicing her underwater acrobatics and spinning the quirky stories for which she's known. She's a fearless daredevil, curious to a fault. But when Odder comes face-to-face with a hungry great white shark, her life takes a dramatic turn, one that will challenge everything she believes about herself--and about the humans who hope to save her"--
Format:
Book
Call Number:
J FIC App
