Aiken, Joan. Arabel's Raven. J Fic Aiken
The injured raven Arabel's father brings home can say only "Kaark" and "Nevermore" but he still manages to make great changes in the family's life.

Armstrong, William. Sounder. J Fic Armstrong & JPB A
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.

Avi.  Ereth's Birthday.  J FIC Avi
Feeling neglected on his birthday, Ereth, the cantankerous old porcupine, sets out looking for his favorite treat and instead finds himself acting as "mother" to three young fox kits.

Avi. Ragweed.  J Fic Avi
Ragweed, a young country mouse, leaves his family and travels to the big city, where he finds excitement and danger and sees cats for the first time.

Christopher, Matt.  Desperate Search.  J FIC Christopher
Trying to help each other get home during a blizzard, two lost pets become closer friends, as do two boys searching for them.

Cleary, Beverly. Strider. J Fic Cleary
In a series of diary entries, Leigh tells how he comes to terms with his parents' divorce, acquires joint custody of an abandoned dog, and joins the track team at school.

DiCamillo, Kate.  Because of Winn-Dixie.  J FIC DiCamillo // J PB D
Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.

Farley, Walter. The Black Stallion. J PB F
Young Alec Ramsay is shipwrecked on a desert island with a horse destined to play an important part in his life. Following their rescue their adventure continues in America.

Farmer, Nancy. The Warm Place.  J FIC Farmer / J PB F
When Ruva, a young giraffe, is captured and sent to a zoo in San Francisco, she calls upon two rats, a street-smart chameleon, a runaway boy, and all the magical powers of the animal world to return to the warm place that is home.

Finney, Patricia. Jack and Rebel, the Police Dog. J Fic Finney
Jack the labrador retriever tells the tale of his adventures at home and with his old friend Rebel, the police dog, and how the two of them broke up a burglary ring that had been robbing houses while police were occupied with political protests. Includes explanatory footnotes written by the cats, and a glossary explaining Jack's terminology.

George, Jean Craighead. Julie of the Wolves. Y PB G/ Y Fic George / JPB G
While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.

Gipson, Fred. Old Yeller. Y Fic Gipson / Y PB G / Fic Gipson (Adult Section)
In the rugged landscape of early frontier Texas, fourteen-year-old Travis is faced with taking over his family's farm and making a painful, important decision.

Henry, Marguerite. King of the Wind. J PB H
Follows the adventures of the Arabian stallion brought to England to become one of the founding sires of the Thoroughbred breed and the mute Arab stable boy who tended him with loyalty and devotion all his life.

Hoban, Russell. The Mouse and His Child. J Fic Hoban
A wind-up toy mouse and his child, broken and then mended, set out to find the animals and doll house with which they were in the toy shop. Along the way, they make enemies with a dump rat and have many adventures.

Knight, Eric. Lassie, Come Home. J Fic Knight
Sold in financial desperation to a wealthy duke, a collie undertakes a 1000-mile journey in order to Be reunited with her former master in Yorkshire.

London, Jack.  The Call of the Wild / White Fang. J Fic London // J PB L // Y PB L // Y FIC London
The adventures in the northern wilderness of a dog who is part wolf and who eventually makes his peace with man.

Morgan, Clay.  The boy who spoke dog. J FIC Morgan
After being marooned on an island near New Zealand, Jack, an orphaned cabin boy from San Francisco, becomes allied with a group of dogs who protect the local sheep from wild dogs.

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Shiloh. J PB N/ J Fic 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, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.

O'Brien, Robert. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. J Fic 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.

O'Hara, Mary. My Friend Flicka. J Fic O'Hara
Through his intense devotion to the colt Flicka, a young boy, living on a Wyoming ranch, begins to learn about responsibility and gain a better understanding of his brusque father.

Rounds, Glen.  Wild Appaloosa.  J FIC Rounds
A handsome, wild Appaloosa filly, desired by wild horse hunters, makes a young boy's dream come true.

Selden, George. The Cricket in Times Square. J Fic Selden // J PB S
The adventures of a country cricket who unintentionally arrives in New York and is befriended by Tucker Mouse an>d Harry Cat.

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

Smiley, Jane.  The Georges and the Jewels.  J FIC Smiley
Seventh-grader Abby Lovitt grows up on her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, learning to train the horses her father sells and trying to reconcile her strict religious upbringing with her own ideas about life.

Steig, William. Abel's Island. J PB S
Castaway on an uninhabited island, Abel, a very civilized mouse, finds his resourcefulness and endurance tested to the limit as he struggles to survive and return to his home.

Wallace, Bill.  Eye of the Great Bear.  J FIC Wallace
The bullies called him coward. Even his brothers thought eleven-year-old Bailey Trumbull was scared of his own shadow.

Wallace, Carol.  Bub, Snow, and the Burly Bear Scare.  J FIC Wallace
A young moose, his mother, and his animal friends team up to fight a bully of a grizzly bear one long, hard winter, and make friends with some humans in the process.

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