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

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

Old Yeller by Fred Gipson - Young Travis faces a test of manhood when his heroic dog is bitten by a mad wolf

Babe : the gallant pig by Dick King-Smith - A piglet destined for eventual butchering arrives at the farmyard, is adopted by an old sheep dog, and discovers a special secret to success

Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien - Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long-lived

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

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell - A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters