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| Eva |
Dickinson, Peter |
YA 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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| The Last Dog on Earth |
Ehrenhaft, Daniel |
YA EHRENHAFT |
| Logan Moore hates everyone except his dog Jack, but when a mysterious disease turns dogs into vicious, raging animals, Logan decides to runaway to keep his dog safe. |
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| Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf |
Hartnett, Sonya |
YA HARTNETT |
| Satchel O'Rye, devoted son of an impoverished couple in a dying rural town, must weigh in balance the life of his most cherished dog and the freedom of a rare striped tiger. |
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| Redwall Series |
Jacques, Brian |
YA JACQUES |
When Cluny the Scourge, a huge rat with a barb on his whiplike tale, threatens Redwall Abbey, Matthias the mouse and the other peaceful animals who live there must decide what to do - leave, or solve the puzzles left behind by Martin the Warrior. (Redwall series, Book 1)
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| Not the End of the World |
McCaughrean, Geraldine |
YA MCCAUGHREAN |
| Noah's daughter, daughters-in-law, sons, wife, and the animals describe what it was like to be aboard the ark while they watched everyone around them drown. |
| School for Dangerous Girls |
Schrefer, Eliot |
YA SCHREFER |
| Sent to a remote, run-down reform school in Colorado, fifteen-year-old Angela is placed with the better girls, but upon learning that her "dangerous" friends are being isolated and left to live as animals, she takes radical steps to join them and help them escape. |
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| Izzy and Lenore |
Katz, John |
YA 636.7374 K159 |
| The author describes how Izzy, a dog with an uncanny sensitivity toward ill and troubled humans, led him to to take on the difficult but rewarding job of hospice volunteer, while his acquisition of Lenore, a Labrador puppy, helped him overcome depression. |
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| Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat |
Myron, Vicki |
YA 636.809 |
| Journalist Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. The storm, which claimed five lives and left countless more in guilt-ridden disarray, would also provide the impetus for this epic account of the May 1996 disaster. |
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