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1) Odder
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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2025 NYRA Recommendations - Young Readers
Books for Kids and Tweens
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover
Books for Kids and Tweens
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover
Description
"A touching and lyrical tale about a remarkable sea otter, from Newbery Medalist Katherine Applegate, author of Wishtree. Meet Odder, the Queen of Play: Nobody has her moves. She doesn’t just swim to the bottom, she dive-bombs. She doesn’t just somersault, she triple-doughnuts. She doesn’t just ride the waves, she makes them. Odder spends her days off the coast of central California, practicing her underwater acrobatics and spinning the quirky...
3) Angelo
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While restoring the front of a church, an old plasterer rescues an injured pigeon and nurses her back to health.
6) Arrowhawk
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Based on the true story of a bird of prey's survival after being struck by a poacher's arrow.
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an oil spill prevents penguins from doing the things they love to do, Big Boots come and dress them in sweaters until they--and the water--can be cleaned. Includes facts about penguins and why dressing them in sweaters is not always a good idea.
12) Loveykins
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Pub
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A woman rescues a baby bird blown from his nest in a storm and proceeds to care for him with gourmet food, cozy blankets, and walks in a stroller, but eventually her "loveykins" is ready to try his wings.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Josh runs away to the mountains of Montana with an orphaned bear cub destined for laboratory testing, they both must fight for their lives in a sudden snowstorm.
15) Flyaway
Author
Publisher
Chicken House
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
While her father is in the hospital, thirteen-year-old Isla befriends Harry, the first boy to understand her love of the outdoors, and as Harry's health fails, Isla tries to help both him and the lone swan they see, struggling to fly, on the lake outside Harry's window.
16) Nuts: a novel
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Nell finds a tiny baby squirrel on the ground in her yard, she begs her parents to let her raise it as a pet, even after the research she does shows that this is not a good idea.
17) Forest
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young girl hears a noise in the forest near her family's farm in Canada, and when she and her mother go to investigate, they find a small fawn that seems to be all alone.
Author
Series
Rescue princesses volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When Clarabel finds an injured dolphin during Ampali Island's Royal Regatta, she and her fellow Rescue Princesses vow to save the dolphin with Clarabel's special gift.
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