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TITLE: Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
AUTHOR: Mary Roach WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 591.5 Roa SUMMARY: A best-selling author offers an investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet. |
TITLE: Animal Farm: The Graphic Novel
AUTHOR: George Orwell; Odyr WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Orw - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: A graphic novel adaptation of George Orwell's "Animal Farm," a political satire in which the animals take over running the farm but find their utopian state turning into a dictatorship. |
TITLE: Into the Wild
AUTHOR: Erin Hunter WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Hun - FANTASY SUMMARY: When Rusty, an ordinary housecat, becomes ThunderClan's new apprentice, he quickly realizes that the comfortable world in his past life has not prepared him for the hardships he now faces and so must work extra hard to meet others' expectations and prove he can be a true warrior. |
TITLE: Inside of a Dog : What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
AUTHOR: Alexandra Horowitz WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 636.7 Hor SUMMARY: A psychologist and aficionado offers insight into the canine mind, drawing on current cognitive research to illuminate a dog's perceptual abilities and the experiences that shape dog behavior, in a report that also shares stories about the author's relationship with her canine friend, Pumpernickel. |
TITLE: Laika
AUTHOR: Nick Abadzis WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Aba - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: A graphic novel account of the life of Laika, the first dog in space, who died in her experimental launch. |
TITLE: Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home
AUTHOR: Nicole J. Georges WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 636.7 Geo SUMMARY: The author describes her life with her misbehaved dog, a pet that saw her through many changes in life over the course of fifteen years. |
TITLE: The Animal Book: A Visual Encyclopedia of Life on Earth
AUTHOR: David Burnie WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 590 Bur SUMMARY: A pictorial guide to the animals on Earth, covering microscopic life, fungi, plants, invertebrates, insects, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. |
TITLE: A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
AUTHOR: C. A. Fletcher WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Fle - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: When a beloved family dog is stolen, her owner sets out on a life-changing journey through the ruins of our world to bring her back. |
TITLE: Beastly Brains: Exploring How Animals Think, Talk, and Feel
AUTHOR: Nancy F. Castaldo WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 591.5 Cas SUMMARY: An introduction to how animals communicate, express feelings, use tools and work in social groups draws on scientific interviews and historical anecdotes to share related insights into the work of famous animal researchers and how modern understandings are revolutionizing old theories. |
TITLE: Pax
AUTHOR: Sara Pennypacker WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Pen - NOVELS SUMMARY: After being forced to give up his pet fox Pax, a young boy named Peter decides to leave home and get his best friend back. |
TITLE: Secrets of Bearhaven
AUTHOR: K. E. Rocha WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Roc - FANTASY SUMMARY: When Spencer Plain's uncle pulls him out of school, and they find themselves being chased by a strange car, Spencer does not know what is going on--but soon he is rescued from the woods by a bear, and taken to Bearhaven, a secret refuge his parents created, filled with bears who can talk, where, desperate to find his parents, he and a bear cub named Kate decide to take matters into their own hands. |
TITLE: Wild Born
AUTHOR: Brandon Mull WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Mul - FANTASY SUMMARY: As a dark force engulfs the land, the fate of Erdas has fallen on the shoulders of four young strangers who each have forged a rare bond with their spirit beasts -- a bond that gives great powers to all of them. |
TITLE: Following Atticus: Forty-Eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship
AUTHOR: Tom Ryan WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 796.522 Rya SUMMARY: The author describes the experiences and challenges he faced when he set out, with his miniature schnauzer--Atticus M. Finch--to climb New Hampshire's forty-eight mountain peaks to pay tribute to a close friend and raise money for charity. |
TITLE: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
AUTHOR: David Wroblewski WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Wro - NOVELS SUMMARY: Edgar Sawtelle, born mute, lives contentedly on his parents' Wisconsin farm helping raise a unique breed of dogs developed by his grandfather to embody the qualities of companionship and wisdom, but the death of his father and his belief that his uncle had something to do with it, force him to flee to the forest with only three yearlings for companionship, where he struggles to survive until the need to confront his uncle leads him home again. |
TITLE: My Life with the Chimpanzees
AUTHOR: Jane Goodall WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Goo SUMMARY: The well-known English zoologist describes her early interest in animals and how this led to her study of chimpanzees at the Gombe Stream Reserve in Tanzania. |
TITLE: Old Yeller
AUTHOR: Fred Gipson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Gip - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: In the late 1860s in the Texas hill country, a big yellow dog and a fourteen-year-old boy form a close, loving relationship. |
TITLE: What It's Like to Be a Dog: And Other Adventures in Animal Neuroscience
AUTHOR: Gregory Berns WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 636.7 Ber SUMMARY: What is it like to be a dog? A bat? Or a dolphin? To find out, neuroscientist Gregory Berns and his team began with a radical step: they taught dogs to go into an MRI scanner-completely awake. They discovered what makes dogs individuals with varying capacities for self-control, different value systems, and a complex understanding of human speech. And dogs were just the beginning... |
TITLE: Life of Pi
AUTHOR: Yann Martel WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Mar - NOVELS SUMMARY: Following a shipwreck, a sixteen-year-old Indian boy and a Bengal tiger drift for several months in a lifeboat. |
TITLE: The Horse Whisperer
AUTHOR: Nicholas Evans WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Eva - NOVELS SUMMARY: A mother brings her teenage daughter and their horse, Pilgrim, both seriously injured by a speeding truck, to the Horse Whisperer in Montana. |