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Younger Elementary

A Hare-Raising Tail   Elizabeth Levy   (Juvenile First Chapter Books - J Levy)

After Fletcher, a salami-loving basset hound, is wrongly accused of eating a pet rabbit, he and his sidekick, Jasper the flea, must find the true culprit before Fletcher is sent back to the dog pound.

Akimbo and the Lions   Alexander McCall Smith   (Juvenile First Chapter Books - J Mccall)   Series: Akimbo series: book 2

When Akimbo and his park ranger father unintentionally capture a lion cub near an African game park, Akimbo wants to keep the cub.

Hobart   Anita Briggs   (Juvenile First Chapter Books - J Br)

Four budding artists, a tap dancer, a poet, a singer, and an acrobat, who just happen to be pigs, live out their dreams and avoid becoming bacon.

Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride   Kate DiCamillo   (Juvenile First Chapter Books - Dicamil)   Series: Mercy Watson: book 2

Mr. Watson's usual Saturday drive in his Cadillac with his favorite pig, Mercy, turns into an adventure when Mercy finds herself behind the wheel.

My Dog, Cat   Marty Crisp   (Juvenile Fiction - J Cri)

Ten-year-old Abbie, bullied at school for being small, wants to get a big black dog, but two months of living with a little Yorkshire terrier changes his mind about a number of things.

My Dog, My Hero   Betsy Cromer Byars   (Juvenile First Chapter Books - J Byars)

A panel of three judges has to decide which dog out of eight finalists deserves to win the title of My Hero.

Rats on the Roof and Other Stories   James Marshall   (Juvenile First Chapter Books - J Marshal)

An illustrated collection of seven stories about various animals, including a frog with magnificent legs, a hungry brontosaurus, and a mouse who gets married.

Older Elementary

A Room With a Zoo   Jules Feiffer   (Juvenile Fiction - J Feiffer)

Nine-year-old Julie loves animals. So much it seems that she's assembling a zoo in her room. But, what she really wants is a dog.

Abel’s Island   William Steig   (Juvenile Fiction - J Steig)

Castaway on an uninhabited island, Abel, a very civilized mouse, finds his resourcefulness and endurance tested to the limit as he struggles to survive and return to his home.

Because of Winn-Dixie   Kate DiCamillo   (Juvenile Fiction - J Dicamil)

Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.

Bunnicula   Deborah Howe   (Juvenile Fiction - J Howe)

Though scoffed at by Harold the dog, Chester the cat tries to warn his human family that their foundling baby bunny must be a vampire.Look for more Bunnicula titles.

Catwings   Ursula K. Le Guin   (Juvenile Fiction - J Le)

Four young cats with wings leave the city slums in search of a safe place to live, finally meeting two children with kind hands. Look for more Catwings titles.

Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat   Lynne Jonell   (Juvenile Fiction - J Jonell)

When Emmy discovers that she and her formerly loving parents are being drugged by their evil nanny with rodent potions that can change people in frightening ways, she and some new friends must try everything possible to return things to normal. Look for more Emmy and the Rat titles.

Frightful’s Mountain   Jean Craighead George   (Juvenile Fiction - J Geoge)

As she grows through the first years of her life in the Catskill Mountains of New York, a peregrine falcon called Frightful interacts with various humans, including the boy who raised her, a falconer who rescues her, and several unscrupulous poachers.

I, Freddy   Dietlof Reiche   (Juvenile Fiction - J Reiche)

Freddy, a remarkably intelligent golden hamster, learns how to read and how to write on a computer and escapes captivity to become an independent and civilized creature.  (First in The Golden Hamster Saga.)

Love That Dog   Sharon Creech   (Juvenile Fiction - J Creech)

A young student, who comes to love poetry through a personal understanding of what different famous poems mean to him, surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem.

Misty of Chincoteague   Marguerite Henry   (Juvenile Classics - J Henry)

Paul and his sister Maureen's determination to own a pony from the herd on Chincoteague Island, Virginia, is greatly increased when the Phantom and her colt are among the ponies rounded up for the yearly auction.

Mouse Guard. Vol. 1, Fall 1152   David Petersen   (Juvenile Graphic Novels - J Peterse)

Graphic novel adventures of three mice, Saxon, Kenzie and Lieam patrol borders, and strive to make safeways to keep the mouse territories free from predators. Look for more Mouse Guard titles.

Mousehunter   Alex Milway   (Juvenile Fiction - J Milway)

Captain Mousebeard is a feared mousehunting pirate. He seeks out the rarest and most precious breeds of mice to collect and trade. Emeline, a mousekeeper, wants the bounty her master puts on Mousebeard's head. So she heads off to adventure to capture the pirate. Look for more titles in the Mousehunter trilogy.

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH   Robert C. O'Brien   (Juvenile Fiction - J Obr)

Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived.

Poppy   Avi   (Juvenile Fiction - J Avi)

Poppy the deer mouse urges her family to move next to a field of corn big enough to feed them all forever, but Mr. Ocax, a terrifying owl, has other ideas.

Runt   Marion Dane Bauer   (Juvenile Fiction - J Bauer)

Runt, the smallest wolf cub in the litter, seeks to prove himself to his father King and the rest of the pack and to earn a new name.

Seaglass Summer   Anjali Banerjee   (Juvenile Fiction - J Banerje)

While spending a month on an island off the coast of Washington helping in her Uncle Sanjay's veterinary clinic, eleven-year-old Poppy Ray soon questions her decision to follow in her uncle's footsteps.

Shiloh   Phyllis Reynolds Naylor   (Juvenile Fiction - J Nay)

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 man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs. Look for more titles in the Shiloh trilogy.

Silverwing   Kenneth Oppel   (Juvenile Fiction - J Op)

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. Look for more Silverwing saga titles.

The Call of the Wild   Jack London   (Juvenile Classics - J Lo)

Buck, a dog, is abducted from his home and thrust into the merciless world of the Arctic North.

The Capture   Kathryn Lasky   (Juvenile Fiction - J Lasky)   Series: Guardians of Ga'Hoole: book 1

Pushed from his nest, an owlet is captured by agents of the mysterious and ill-intentioned St. Aegolius Academy, where orphaned owls are brainwashed and enlisted in an evil attempt to take over the owl world.

The Incredible Journey   Sheila Burnford   (Juvenile Fiction - J Bu)

A cat, a bull terrier, and a Labrador retriever travel 250 miles through the wilderness to find their family.

The Mob   Clem Martini   (Juvenile Fiction - J Martini)

During the annual crow migration, young Kyp leads a Mob on a revenge attack against a local cat. The disaster that follows splits the flock and sends them into forbidden worlds. (First in the Blood and Bone trilogy.)

The Mouse and the Motorcycle   Beverly Cleary   (Juvenile Fiction - J Cleary)

A reckless young mouse named Ralph makes friends with a boy in room 215 of the Mountain View Inn and discovers the joys of motorcycling. Look for Ralph the Mouse titles.

Urchin of the Riding Stars   Margaret I. McAllister   (Juvenile Fiction - J McAllis)   Series: Mistmantle chronicles: book 1

A group of animals, led by an orphaned squirrel, learns about friendship and loyalty when they band together to defend their island kingdom against evil forces.  (First in the Mistmantle Chronicles.)

Wanted: Mud Blossom   Betsy Byars   (Juvenile Fiction - J Byars)

Convinced that Mud is responsible for the disappearance of the school hamster that he was taking care of for the weekend, Junior Blossom is determined that the dog should be tried for his "crime."

Watership Down   Richard Adams   (Juvenile Fiction - J Ad)

A taut and suspenseful tale of survival about a band of wild rabbits who leave their ancestral home to build a more humane society.

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