• The One and Only Ivan

    By Katherine Applegate (J Appl, CD J Appl, READ ALONG J Appl, eBook, eAudiobook

    Ivan has grown accustomed to humans watching him. He hardly ever thinks about his life in the jungle. But when he meets Ruby, a baby elephant taken from the wild, he is forced to see their home, and his art, through new eyes.

  • Odder

    By Katherine Applegate (J Appl, PLAY J Appl, eBook, eAudiobook)

    Odder spends her days off the coast of California, practicing her underwater acrobatics and spinning the quirky stories for which she's known. But when Odder comes face-to-face with a hungry great white shark, her life takes a dramatic turn, one that will challenge everything she believes about herself—and humans.

  • Manatee Summer

    By Evan Griffith (J Grif, PLAY J Girf, eBook, eAudiobook)

    Peter and, Tommy, have a goal for the summer before middle school: finish their Discovery Journal, a catalog of the wildlife around town. When they spot a manatee in a canal, Peter knows they've found something special - and when the manatee is injured by a boat, something to protect!

  • Love That Dog

    By Sharon Creech (J Cree, PLAY J Cree, eBook, eAudiobook)

    A young student, who comes to love poetry through a personal understanding of what different famous poems mean to him, surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem.

  • Shiloh

    By Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (J Nayl, CD J Nayl, eAudiobook)

    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, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.

  • Charlotte's Web

    By E.B. White (J Whit, CD J Whit, PLAY J Whit, eAudiobook)

    Charlotte's spiderweb tells of her feelings for a little pig named Wilbur, who simply wants a friend. E.B. White's Newbery Honor Book is a tender novel of friendship, love, life, and death that will continue to be enjoyed by generations to come.

  • Pax

    By Sara Pennypacker (J Penn, CD J Penn, PLAY J Penn, eBook, eAudiobook)

    Pax and Peter have been inseparable ever since Peter rescued him as a kit. But one day, the unimaginable happens: Peter's dad enlists in the military and makes him return the fox to the wild. Three hundred miles away from home, Peter knows he isn't where he should be.

  • Singing With Elephants

    By Margarita Engle (J Engl, PLAY J Engl)

    Oriol lives in California, where she struggles to belong. Oriol learns it will take courage to stay true to herself and do what she thinks is right--attempting to rescue a baby elephant in need--even if it means keeping secrets from those she loves.

  • Something Like Home

    By Andrea Beatriz Arango (J Aran, PLAY J Aran, eBook, eAudiobook)

    When a lost dog helps Laura find a way home to her family, they discover family in each other along the way.

  • Clarice the Brave

    By Lisa McMann (J McMa)

    When they are separated at sea, mouse siblings Clarice and Charles Sebastian, who were taught to be careful, must now need to be bold if they are to survive--and keep their promise to find one another again.

  • Bamboo Kingdom Series - Creatures of the Flood, Bk. 1

    By Erin Hunter (J Hunt)

    Three young pandas set out on separate journeys to save their homes and families in the Bamboo Kingdom.

  • Pony

    By R.J. Palacio (J Pala, CD J Pala)

    Twelve-year-old Silas is awoken in the dead of night by three menacing horsemen who take his father away. Silas makes the courageous decision to leave his home and embark on a perilous journey to find his father. He faces his fears to unlock the secrets of his past.