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Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Inspiring, true tales of interspecies adoption, One Big Happy Family tells the heartwarming stories of animals who have reached out to save the lives of babies from other species and raise them as their own. Whether it's the border collie and his piglets, the cat and her ducklings, the orangutan and his lion cubs, or even the Labrador and her baby hippo, these are poignant, charming tales of animals who have felt the parental instinct and cared for...
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collection of sixteen stories introduces a host of strange, wondrous beings that have never existed anywhere but in the imagination, with stories from Neil Gaiman, Diana Wynne Jones, and E. Nesbit.
3) Leviathan
Author
Series
Leviathan trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts.
4) Skybreaker
Author
Series
Publisher
Eos
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Matt Cruse, a student at the Airship Academy, and Kate de Vries, a young heiress, team up with a gypsy and a daring captain, to find a long-lost airship, rumored to carry a treasure beyond imagination.
5) Max
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When millions of fish start dying off the coast of Hawaii and something is destroying hundreds of ships, the government enlists the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--to help get to the bottom of the disaster before it is too late.
6) Airborn
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.
7) Goliath
Author
Series
Leviathan trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alek and Deryn encounter obstacles on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek's throne as prince of Austria, and finally fall in love.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Aboard the Pequod, seventeen-year-old Ishmael arrives on the planet Cretacea to hunt down great ocean-dwelling beasts to harvest and send back to the resource-depleted Earth. But the ship's captain, Ahab, who lost his leg to the Great Terrafin years ago, is obsessed with hunting down the beast. The classic tale of Moby Dick as set in the future.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Andrej, nine-year-old Tomas, and their baby sister Wilma flee their Romany encampment when it is attacked by Germans during World War II, and in an abandoned town they find a zoo where the animals tell their stories, helping the children understand what has become of their lives and what it means to be free.
Author
Series
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Teagan, Finn, and Aiden have made it out of Mag Mell alive, but the Dark Man's forces follow them to Chicago, where Tea's goblin cousins cause all sorts of trouble while she is torn between the life she wants and the future she is drawn to as a wild Stormrider, born to reign.
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