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3) Trapped
Author
Series
Vet volunteers ; 8
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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Description
Brenna, one of the volunteers at the Dr. Mac's Place animal clinic, is horrified to find a dog caught in a trap in the local nature preserve, but subsequent events prove that every story has two sides.
Originally published as Wild at heart.
4) Eva
Author
Language
English
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Description
After a terrible accident, a young girl wakes up to discover that she has been given the body of a chimpanzee.
5) Rescued
Author
Series
Ape quartet ; 3
Language
English
Description
When John was ten years old his father brought back a baby orangutan from Indonesia, and Raja quickly becomes John's "brother" and responsibility--so years later, after his parents divorce, and his father has sold Raja to a roadside zoo, John sets out to rescue him and bring him to a sanctuary in Indonesia.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Kizzy had dreamed of every possible way she might get a pony, but she'd never expected to pick one up from the bakery aisle in the supermarket. Wherever he's come from, the pony is everything Kizzy ever wished for. With a bit of training, Kizzy knows they'll be winning rosettes in no time. There's just one problem: How do you keep a pony in a twelfth-floor flat without your mum finding out?" --
8) Dirt
Author
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.
9) Black Beauty
Author
Language
English
Description
A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
10) Moon bear
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In Laos, twelve-year-old Tam must work at a bear farm where bears are cruelly caged and milked for their bile, but when a familiar cub is brought to the farm, Tam will do anything to free both the cub, and himself.
11) Louie
Author
Series
Puppy place ; 51
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At Loon Lake Park, Charles and his Cub Scout friends are told that a dog has been abandoned in the parking lot. Louie, a not-so-small Newfoundland puppy, is quickly taken in and cared for by the group. Can Charles and his friends find Louie a perfect, and roomy, forever home?" --
12) Strays like us
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Language
English
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Description
"Twelve-year-old Fred (never Winifred) is being fostered by the eccentric but kind Margery Dawson while her mother is dealing with addiction problems, and mostly Fred is determined not to form any attachments to anybody--until the condition of Toby, the abused dog next door, captures first her attention and then her heart, and somehow it becomes increasingly difficult to stay detached from the people who are helping her." --
Author
Language
English
Description
Patrick has been desperate for a dog of his own for as long as he can remember, and this summer, with his father away, he longs for a canine friend more than ever. Meanwhile, in his short doggy life, Oz has suffered at the hands of bad people. Somewhere out there, he believes, is an awesome boy - his boy. And maybe, when they find each other, Oz will learn to bark again. --
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English
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"Elsa Roth and her best friend, Olivia, are accompanying Elsa's mother on an expedition to study the diet of orcas in the San Juan Islands in the Pacific Northwest, where they are soon caught up in the drama surrounding August, a young orca calf, who has gotten separated from his pod--the marine mammal sanctuary wants to rescue and rehabilitate him for a quick return to his own pod when they can be found, but the local Oceanarium wants to keep him...
Author
Series
Middle school novels ; 14
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Rafe Khatchadorian is horrified that because of a missed science assignment he has to go to summer school; but instead of three weeks in a school room, he finds himself as a volunteer at BushyTail animal refuge, which is really hard, smelly work--and somehow he needs to use the experience (and the help of a girl he meets there) to produce a first-class science report."--
18) Shiloh
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Series
Language
English
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Description
When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
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