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Week 6 Reading List Week 6: Animal Lives Books for Adults DB 51968 Seabiscuit: an DB 67900 Zamba: the true story DB67516 Dewey: the small-town American legend by Laura of the greatest lion that ever library cat who touched the Hillenbrand lived by Ralph Helfer world by Vicki Myron Annotation: Annotation: Annotation: Recounts the rise Hollywood animal Spencer, Iowa, of an "undersized, behaviorist fondly public library crooked-legged" recalls his director Vicki thoroughbred horse eighteen-year Myron describes who in 1938 was relationship with finding a nearly the year's number- Zamba, an African frozen kitten in the one newsmaker lion that came to book drop in 1988. over Franklin Roosevelt, Hitler, live on his California ranch in the Named Dewey Readmore Books and Lou Gehrig. Hillenbrand tells mid-1950s. Helfer recounts by library staff, the feline became Seabiscuit's story through the adventures with Zamba, including an increasingly famous mascot three men who made a true long movie productions, and he over the next nineteen years. shot into a winner: owner Charles describes his development of Myron also discusses her divorce, Howard, trainer Tom Smith, and affection training, which uses single parenthood, breast cancer jockey Red Pollard. Bestseller. methods based on love instead of scare, and love of librarianship. 2001. Bestseller. 2001. fear. 2005. Bestseller. 2008. DB 59487 Monarch of Deadman DB 72060 Flush: a biography by DB 72218 A dog’s purpose by Bay: the life and death of a Virginia Woolf W. Bruce Cameron Kodiak bear by Roger A. Caras Annotation: In the summer of 1842 Annotation: Through four lifetimes Annotation: A study of Kodiak a cocker spaniel named Flush a dog finds his reason for being. Island, Alaska, and the species of joins the household of reclusive His first experience is as a feral brown bear unique to the region. poetess Elizabeth Barrett. Flush's puppy. Reincarnated as a golden Follows a single male, Monarch, adventures include being stolen retriever, he bonds with an eight- who becomes a mankiller. and held for ransom, participating year-old named Ethan. After Surveys his environment, notes in Miss Barrett's courtship and returning to life as a K-9 unit the habits of his kind, and relates elopement with Robert Browning, German shepherd, his final the ongoing struggle between and sharing in their happy life journey reunites him with an aged primordial carnivore and man. together in Italy. 1933. Ethan. 2010. 1969. Books for Kids and Teens DB 75592 The incredible life of DB 87335 The murderer’s ape DB 59419 Exiled: memoirs of a Balto by Meghan McCarthy by Jakob Wegelius camel by Kathleen Karr Annotation: Chronicles the saga of Annotation: When her best friend, Annotation: 1856. The camel Ali Balto, the sled dog who became a the sailor Henry, is falsely accused describes how he hero in 1925 after he helped deliver of murder, a gorilla named Sally and other animals life-saving medicine from Nenana visits the run-down docks of are sent from to Nome, Alaska. Recounts Balto's Lisbon, embarks on a journey Egypt to serve in sale to a traveling show and the across the seven seas, and calls the United States outpouring of support that led to his on the Maharaja of Bhapur's Camel Corps in rescue. For grades K-3 and older magnificent court--all to clear Texas and the readers. 2011. Henry's name. Commercial Mojave Desert, where they are audiobook. For grades 5-8. 2017. often brutally treated. After starting a family, Ali finally escapes. For he must find her a better life. For grades 5-8. 2004. grades 3-6 and older readers. 2012. DB 95377 A wolf called Wander by Roseanne Parry DB 08640 Trumpeter, the story Annotation: A young wolf cub, of a swan by Jane Annixter separated from his Annotation: The life cycle of a pack, journeys miles trumpeter swan including courtship across the Pacific and mating, migration from the Northwest, dealing Arctic to the Louisiana swamps, with forest fires, secrets of survival, and elements of hunters, highways, flock behavior. For grades 5-8. and hunger before finding a new home. Based on the DB 30904 Lili, a giant panda of true story of a wolf called OR-7. Sichuan by Robert M. McClung Commercial audiobook. For grades Annotation: Follows the first 4-7. 2019. several years in the life of Lili, a female panda in the only remaining DB 75687 The one and only natural habitat for this animal, Ivan by Katherine Applegate China's Sichuan Province. Includes Annotation: Ivan the gorilla has a discussion of preservation efforts lived comfortably for the fewer than 1,000 remaining for years in a pandas. For grades 3-6. down-and-out, circus-themed mall. But when baby elephant Ruby arrives, Ivan decides that .
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