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Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Henry, a writer, receives a curious letter from an elderly taxidermist who wants Henry to help him write a play about a donkey and a howler monkey--Beatrice and Virgil--but Henry feel increasingly uncomfortable as he learns more about the odd world of the taxidermist and his perilous plans for Beatrice and Virgil.
3) Zoo
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
As coordinated attacks by animals against humans increase and escalate, young biologist Jackson Oz and ecologist Chloe Tousignant warn world leaders that soon there will be nowhere left for humans. All over the world, brutal attacks are crippling entire cities. Oz watches the escalating events with an increasing sense of dread. When he witnesses a coordinated lion ambush in Africa, the enormity of the violence to come becomes terrifyingly clear....
4) Ashlords
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Every year since the Ashlords were gifted phoenix horses by their gods, they've raced them. First into battle, then on great hunts, and finally for the pure sport of seeing who rode the fastest. Centuries of blood and fire carved their competition into a more modern spectacle: The Races. Over the course of a multi-day event, elite riders from clashing cultures vie to be crowned champion. But the modern version of the sport requires more than good...
5) Magonia
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Aza Ray Boyle's life has been defined by a unique lung disease and her evolving friendship with Jason, but just before her sixteenth birthday, she is swept up into the sky-bound world of Magonia and discovers her true identity.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When dinosaur bones from a recent dig mysteriously go missing, and an unidentifiable beast starts attacking animals and people, leaving their mangled bodies behind, Abigail and her eccentric employer R. F. Jackaby, investigators of the supernatural in 1892 New England, find themselves hunting for a thief, a monster, and a murderer.
9) Uncaged
Author
Series
Singular menace volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"When an animal rights action at a research lab goes wrong, a terrible secret is exposed, and Shay must find her brother Odin before the researchers at Singular Corp can silence both of them"--
10) The hot zone
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
11) The dire king
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this conclusion to the Jackaby series, the eccentric detective and his assistant Abigail Rook find themselves in the middle of a war between magical worlds.
An evil king is using a blend of magic and technology to push Earth and the Otherworld into a mortal competition. In New Fiddleham, Jackaby and Abigail are caught in the middle as they try to close the rend between the two worlds, and discover why zombies are appearing around town. As the...
13) The beast player
Author
Publisher
Godwinbooks/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Nahoko Uehashi's The Beast Player is an epic YA fantasy about a girl with a special power to communicate with magical beasts and the warring kingdom only she can save.
14) Threatened
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Luc is an orphan, living in debt slavery in Gabon, until he meets a Professor who claims to be studying chimpanzees, and they head off into the jungle--but when the Professor disappears, Luc has to fend for himself and join forces with the chimps to save their forest.
15) My lady Jane
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Edward is the King of England. He's also dying, which is inconvenient, as he's only sixteen and he'd rather be planning his first kiss than who will inherit his crown. Jane, Edward's cousin, is far more interested in books than romance. Unfortunately, Edward has arranged to marry her off to Gifford secure the line of succession. And Gifford is, well, a horse. That is, he an Edians (eth-y-un], for the uninitiated) who becomes a chestnut steed every...
16) The storm crow
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
After their mother's death when the Illucian empire invaded, Princess Anthia and her sister Princess Caliza start a rebellion to bring back the magical elemental crows that were taken from her people.
17) Endangered
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sophie is not happy to be back in the Congo for the summer, but when she rescues an abused baby bonobo she becomes more involved in her mother's sanctuary--and when fighting breaks out and the sanctuary is attacked, it is up to Sophie to rescue the apes and somehow survive in the jungle.
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