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Warriors: Power of Three: The Sight
2007
by
Erin Hunter
Book 1 of the Warriors: Power of Three series.
384 pages,
Grades 4-6
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Cats, Talking Animals
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Warriors: The New Prophesy: Twilight
2006
by
Erin Hunter
Book 5 of the Warriors: The New Prophesy series.
336 pages,
Grades 4-6
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Cats, Talking Animals
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Warriors: The New Prophesy: Starlight
2006
by
Erin Hunter
Book 4 of the Warriors: The New Prophesy series. The Clans have finally arrived in their new home, following the prophecies of their warrior ancestors. The future seems uncertain, and more than one cat is harboring sinister plans that could lead to violence and darkness. As all the warriors wait for a sign, some of them begin to realize that the threats they face in the forest may not be as perilous as the threats they face from within.
336 pages,
Grades 4-6
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Cats, Talking Animals
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Warriors: The New Prophesy: Dawn
2006
by
Erin Hunter
Book 3 of the Warriors: The New Prophesy series. Something terrifying is happening in the world of the Clans. Amid the destruction of the forest, cats are disappearing, including ThunderClan's beloved medicine cat apprentice, Leafpaw. Now the young cats who set off on a quest many moons ago have returned with a chilling message: The Clans must move to a new home, or risk extermination.
352 pages,
Grades 4-6
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Cats, Talking Animals
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Warriors: The New Prophesy: Moonrise
2005
by
Erin Hunter
Book 2 of the Warriors: The New Prophesy series. Several moons have passed since six cats set out from the forest on an urgent journey to save all their Clans. Now those six are traveling home again, but on their way through the mountains, they meet a tribe of wild cats who seem to have their own set of warrior ancestors . . . and their own mysterious prophecy to fulfill.
320 pages,
Grades 4-6
related subjects:
Cats, Talking Animals
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Warriors: The New Prophesy: Midnight
2005
by
Erin Hunter
Book 1 of the Warriors: The New Prophesy series. The wild cat Clans have lived in peace and harmony for many moons -- but now, strange messages from their warrior ancestors speak of terrifying new prophecies and a mysterious danger.
336 pages,
Grades 4-6
related subjects:
Cats, Talking Animals
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
2001
by
Terry Pratchett
A talking cat, intelligent rats, and a strange boy cooperate in a Pied Piper scam until they try to con the wrong town and are confronted by a a deadly evil rat king.
256 pages,
Grades 6 and up
Cats, Fairy Tales, Talking Animals
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Jenny and the Cat Club
1973, 2003 reissue
by
Ester Averill
Jenny Linsky, a black cat who lives with Captain Trinker in New York City, has adventures with the neighborhood cats who belong to the Cat Club.
160 pages,
Grades 3-4
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Cats
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Captains of the City Streets
1972, 2005 reissue
by
Ester Averill
Two tramp cats searching for a place of their own discover the members of the Cat Club but are not easily induced to join them.
176 pages,
Grades 3-4
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Cats
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The Hotel Cat
1969, 2005 reissue
by
Ester Averill
Relates the rise of Tom, the hotel cat, from catcher of mice in the cellar to successful upstairs cat in charge of the hotel's guest cats.
176 pages,
Grades 3-4
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Cats
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Miranda the Great
1967, 2005 reissue
by
Eleanor Estes, illus. by Edward Ardizzone
When barbarians invade Rome, Miranda and her daughter must find a safe place to hide from the chaos. They make their way through the burning city, collecting motherless kittens as they go.
Grades 3-4
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Ancient Rome, Cats
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Jenny Goes to Sea
1957, 2005 reissue
by
Ester Averill
The little black cat named Jenny, along with her brothers and their owner Captain Tinker, sails around the world on a ship called the Sea Queen.
128 pages,
Grades 3-4
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Cats
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Dogs
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Grk and the Pelotti Gang
2007
by
Josh Doder
Book 2 of the Grk series.
208 pages,
Grades 4-6
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Dogs, Spies
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A Dog Called Grk
2007
by
Josh Doder
Book 1 of the Grk series. A British schoolboy finds adventure when he travels to a dangerous foreign country to return a small dog to its rightful owner.
241 pages,
Grades 4-6
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Dogs, Spies
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Because of Winn Dixie
2000
by
Kate DiCamillo
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.
184 pages,
Grades 3-6
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Dogs
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Tornado
1996
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Betsy Byars, illus. by Doron Ben-Ami
As they wait out a tornado in their storm cellar, a family listens to their farmhand tell stories about the dog that was blown into his life by another tornado when he was a boy.
64 pages,
Grades 3-5
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Dogs, Tornadoes
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Endangered Animals
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Scat
2009
by
Carl Hiaasen
Nick and Marta get involved in an environmental who-dunnit when their Biology teacher goes missing in the Black Vine Swamp.
384 pages
Grades 6-8
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Endangered Animals, Detectives, High School
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Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea
2006
by
Sy Montgomery, photographs by Nic Bishop
Meet the amazing Matschie's tree kangaroo, who makes its home in the ancient trees of Papua New Guinea's cloud forest. And meet the amazing scientists who track these elusive animals.
80 pages
Grades 4-8
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Endangered Animals
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Horses
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The Horse and His Boy
1954, 1994 reissue
by
C.S Lewis
Book 3 in the Chronicles of Narnia series. A boy and a talking horse share an adventurous and dangerous journey to Narnia to warn of invading barbarians.
256 pages
Grades 3-5
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Horses, Talking Animals
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My Friend Flicka
1940, 2006 reprint
by
Mary O'Hara
Ken spends his days on his family's Wyoming ranch with his head in the clouds. Then one day, Ken's life is filled with new purpose when he finds Flicka, a magnificent filly as wild as she is fast.
304 pages
Grades 4-6
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Horses
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Insects & Spiders
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Masterpiece
2008
by
Elise Broach, illus. by Kelly Murphy
11-year-old James and Marvin, a beetle who lives under James' sink, form an unlikely friendship and help to solve the case of some missing artwork from the Metropolitan Museum.
304 pages
Grades 3-6
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Insects & Spiders, Museum Mysteries, Burglaries & Heists
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Nic Bishop Spiders
2007
by
Nic Bishop
Amazing images show the beauty and otherworldliness of spiders. Simple, engaging text conveys basic information about spiders as well as cool and quirky facts.
48 pages
Grades 3-5
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Insects & Spiders
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The Dreamwalker's Child
2005
by
Steve Voake
After being hit by a car, Sam finds himself in Aurobon, a land of giant insects where some of the inhabitants are working to keep Earth's ecology in balance while others are trying to wipe out humankind with a virus spread by mosquitoes.
300 pages
Grades 5 and up
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Insects & Spiders, Parallel Universe, Survival
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Cirque du Freak: A Living Nightmare
2001
by
Darren Shan
Book 1 of the Cique du Freak series. Two boys who are best friends visit an illegal freak show, where an encounter with a vampire and a deadly spider forces them to make life-changing choices.
272 pages,
Grades 4-7
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Best Friends, Insects & Spiders, Vampires
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Owls
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Hoot
2002
by
Carl Hiaasen
Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
304 pages,
Grades 5 and up
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Owls
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Owl in Love
1993
by
Patrice Kindl
Teenage girl by day, and owl by night, Owl Tycho's life is complicated. It becomes even more so when an inept new shape-shifter appears on the scene. Funny, smart, and supernatural, Owl is a young woman worth getting to know.
208 pages
Grades 4 and up
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Owls
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Sharks
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Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Sharks and Other Sea Monsters
2006
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Robert Sabuda, illus. by Matthew Reinhart
While dinosaurs patrolled the lands, massive prehistoric sharks, giant scorpions, and colossal squid cruised the ancient oceans - most with just one thing in mind: eat or be eaten. This pop-up book explores the prehistoric underwater world, where monsters like megalodon ruled the waves.
310 pages,
Grades 3-5
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Sharks
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Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family and Fighting to Get Back on the Board
2004
by
Bethany Hamilton
The true story of a thirteen-year-old girl whose arm was bitten off by a shark while she was surfing in Hawaii.
213 pages,
Grades 5 and up
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Sharks
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Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916
2003
by
Michael Capuzzo
Details the first documented cases in American history of sharks attacking swimmers, which occured along the Atlantic coast of New Jersey in 1916.
144 pages,
Grades 5 and up
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Sharks
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Whales
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Isabel of the Whales
2005
by
Hester Velmans
When Isabel's fifth-grade class goes on a whale-watch field trip, something amazing happens: dozens of whales surround the boat, bumping the deck and sending Isabel flying into the ocean. Isabel discovers she has the ability to turn from a human into a whale and back again, and she has a destiny to fulfill among the whales.
192 pages,
Grades 3-5
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Whales, Sea Adventures
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Moby Dick
1996
by
Geraldine McCaughrean, illus. by Victor Ambrus
A retelling of Herman Melville's classic story of the obsessed Captain Ahab and his relentless hunt for the great white whale, Moby Dick. Together with Starbuck, the mate; Queequeg, the harpoonist; the sinister crewman Fedallah; and the innocent narrator, Ishmael, Ahab travels the oceans of the world in pursuit of the elusive monster, braving waves like strips of volcanoes and lightning like the visitation of angels.
104 pages,
Grades 4 and up
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Whales, Sea Adventures
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