Children's Recommendations - Animals

Animals - Fast and Fun

ISBN: 9781480663589
Title: Humphrey's really wheely racing day by Betty G. Birney - When Mandy, one of the students from classroom 26, brings a special hamster-sized racecar to class, it means just one thing--Humphrey is going to be in a hamster race
Author: Birney, Betty G, author.
Humphrey's really wheely racing day book cover
ISBN: 9781596433410
Title: Bad kitty gets a bath by Nick Bruel - Bad Kitty is forced to take a bath in this riotous how-to guide filled with bad smells, cautionary tales of horror, and hopefully by the end…some soap
Author: Bruel, Nick.
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ISBN: 0690039832
Title: Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner - Little Willie hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dog sled race he enters
Author: Gardiner, John Reynolds.
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ISBN: 9780375937552
Title: How to save your tail : if you are a rat nabbed by cats who really like stories about magic spoons, wolves with snout-warts, big, hairy chimney trolls-- and cookies too by Mary Hanson - Bob the rat shares fresh-baked cookies and stories of his ancestors
Author: Hanson, Mary Elizabeth.
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ISBN: 9781481414142
Title: Welcome home! by Kristin Earhart - When Willa and Ben's family moves to Chincoteague Island to open a bed-and-breakfast, the siblings are unsure if it will ever feel like home
Author: Earhart, Kristin, author.
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ISBN: 9781627798686
Title: Skunked! by Jacqueline Kelly - When Travis discovers an abandoned baby skunk, he can't help but bring it home and take care of it
Author: Kelly, Jacqueline, author.
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ISBN: 0689848803
Title: The storm by Cynthia Rylant - Pandora the cat becomes a lighthouse keeper and saves the life of Seabold the dog, and together the two of them create a family with three young mice rescued from the sea
Author: Rylant, Cynthia.
Cynthia Rylant's THE STORM book cover
ISBN: 9781626720732
Title: My pet human by Yasmine Surovec - A cuddly chapter book series about a cat in need of a pet human
Author: Surovec, Yasmine, author, illustrator.
Yasmine Surovec's MY PET HUMAN book cover
ISBN: 9780823423644
Title: 8 class pets + 1 squirrel [divided by] 1 dog = chaos by Vivian Vande Velde - A dog chases a squirrel into an elementary school one night, creating monumental chaos
Author: Vande Velde, Vivian. author.
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Animals - Fiction

ISBN: 9781442421059
Title: The true blue scouts of Sugar Man Swamp by Kathi Appelt - Twelve-year-old Chap Brayburn, ancient Sugar Man, and his raccoon-brother Swamp Scouts Bingo and J'miah try to save Bayou Tourterelle
Author: Appelt, Kathi, 1954-
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ISBN: 9780061992278
Title: The one and only Ivan by Katherine Applegate - When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life
Author: Applegate, Katherine, author.
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ISBN: 0060201436
Title: Sounder by William H. Armstrong - Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and with the help of the devoted dog Sounder
Author: Armstrong, William Howard, 1914-
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ISBN: 0531087832
Title: Poppy by Avi - Poppy the deer mouse urges her family to move next to a field of corn big enough to feed them all forever, but Mr. Ocax, a terrifying owl, has other ideas
Author: Avi, 1937-
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ISBN: 9780805098990
Title: The wolf keepers by Elise Broach - Twelve-year-old Lizzie Durango lives in a zoo, spending her days taking note of the animals' behaviors, then she meets runaway Tyler Briggs and together they investigate the wolves who are suddenly dying
Author: Broach, Elise, author.
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ISBN: 0385322798
Title: The incredible journey by Sheila Burnford - A Siamese cat, an old bull terrier, and a young Labrador retriever travel together 250 miles through the Canadian wilderness to find their family
Author: Burnford, Sheila Every.
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ISBN: 9780553511246
Title: The nine lives of Jacob Tibbs by Cylin Busby - The story of cat Jacob Tibbs, runt of the litter, and his exploits on the high seas as a ship's mouser
Author: Busby, Cylin, author.
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ISBN: 0688316980
Title: The mouse and the motorcycle by Beverly Cleary - A reckless young mouse named Ralph makes friends with a boy in room 215 of the Mountain View Inn and discovers the joys of motorcycling
Author: Cleary, Beverly.
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ISBN: 0375922075
Title: Fantastic Mr. Fox by by Roald Dahl - Three farmers, each one meaner than the other, try all-out warfare to get rid of the fox and his family
Author: Dahl, Roald,
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ISBN: 9780763652708
Title: The tiger rising by Kate DiCamillo - Rob, who passes the time in his rural Florida community by wood carving, is drawn by his spunky but angry friend, Sistine, into a plan to free a caged tiger
Author: DiCamillo, Kate.
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ISBN: 9781484728543
Title: What elephants know by Eric Dinerstein - In the threatened jungle of the Borderlands between Nepal and India during the 1970s, an orphaned boy discovers his fate as a great elephant driver
Author: Dinerstein, Eric, 1952-
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ISBN: 9780027436228
Title: Misty of Chincoteague by Margerite Henry - A breed of wild horses inhabit an island, and one is befriended and tamed by the love of two children
Author: Henry, Marguerite, 1902-1997 author.
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ISBN: 0060000023
Title: Into the wild by Erin Hunter - Rusty, a bored house kitten, is apprenticed by the ThunderClan and must struggle to fit in when the group of feral cats is threatened by the enemy ShadowClan
Author: Hunter, Erin.
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ISBN: 9781439550151
Title: Ben and me : a new and astonishing life of Benjamin Franklin as written by his good mouse Amos by Robert Lawson - Benjamin Franklin’s companion Amos the Mouse recounts how he was responsible for Franklin’s inventions and discoveries
Author: Lawson, Robert, 1892-1957.
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ISBN: 9780312643003
Title: Rain reign by Ann M. Martin - Struggling with Asperger's syndrome, Rose shares an inseparable bond with her beloved dog, but when the dog goes missing during a storm, she is forced to confront the limits of her comfort levels
Author: Martin, Ann M., 1955- author.
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ISBN: 9780689316142
Title: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor - When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner. The owner is a mean-spirited man known to mistreat his dogs
Author: Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds.
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ISBN: 9780062377029
Title: Pax by Sara Pennypacker - After being forced to give up his pet fox, Pax, a young boy named Peter decides to leave home and get his best friend back
Author: Pennypacker, Sara, 1951- author.
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ISBN: 0374316503
Title: The cricket in Times Square by George Selden - The adventures of a country cricket who unintentionally arrives in New York and is befriended by Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat
Author: Selden, George, 1929-
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ISBN: 0060263962
Title: Stuart Little by E. B. White - After being adopted by a human family, a tiny mouse sets out to win over his resentful new brother and the family feline, while fending off a gang of cats who want him out of the house
Author: White, E.B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985.
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New Fullerton Public Library hours due to Elevator Enhancement

Beginning Tuesday, March 4th, the library will be operating under adjusted hours while the building's elevators are under construction. We anticipate the noise levels due to the construction to be very disruptive and have adjusted our hours to the following: Sunday - Monday: Closed | Tuesday - Thursday: 2:30pm-7pm | Friday: 2:30pm-5pm | Saturday: 11am-5pm