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A collection of Rudyard Kipling's Just so stories
By Rudyard Kipling. 2004
How did the rhinoceros get his wrinkly skin? How did one curious elephant - with a nose for trouble -…
change the lives of elephants everywhere? Kipling answers these and other important questions, in tales first told as bedtime stories to his own children. Grades 3-6 and older readers. c1897. 2004.Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be…
a princess, and the devious rat Roscuro, are about to embark on a journey that will lead them down into a horrible dungeon, up into a glittering castle, and ultimately, into each other's lives. Grades 4-7. 2004 Newbery Medal winner. 2003.Winner takes all
By John Francome. 2006
Racehorse trainer Ben Sayers has two top-class horses to enter in the Cheltenham Gold Cup. One is owned by Alan…
Marcus, a ruthless business man. The other belongs to Alan's gorgeous ex-wife, Christina. Ben knows that both horses have an equal chance of winning, but he's about to find out that Alan Marcus doesn't like competition. Especially when the competition is Christina. 2006.Thief in the garden (Mammoth Storybook Ser.)
By Elizabeth Arnold. 1999
Mum is so busy looking after Grandad that she doesn't have much time for Josh and Connor. But there is…
one brilliant thing about living with Grandad, his fantastic wild garden. When the boys find a stray cat there, how can they persuade mum to keep it? Grades K-3. 1999.Bunnicula: a rabbit-tale of mystery
By James Howe, Deborah Howe. 1999
Chester, the Monroe family's loyal cat, tries his best to warn the family that the baby rabbit they found in…
the movie theatre where they saw "Dracula" is actually a vampire rabbit. This reissue of the classic story featuring the vampire rabbit celebrates the book's twentieth anniversary. Includes an essay by co-author James Howe on the origins of "Bunnicula." Grades 4-7 and older readers. 1999, c1979.Bunnicula strikes again! (Bunnicula And Friends Ser.)
By James Howe. 1999
Shiloh season (The shiloh Quartet Ser.)
By Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. 1998
When mean and angry Judd, who has never known kindness, takes to drinking and mistreats his dogs, Marty discovers how…
deep a hurt can go and how long it takes to heal. Sequel to "Shiloh". Grades 4-7.King of the Wind: The Story Of The Godolphin Arabian
By Marguerite Henry, Wesley Dennis. 1976
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. Grades 4-7. 1976.Elephant winter
By Kim A Echlin. 1997
Sophie Walker is home, back from Africa to nurse her dying mother. Home is her mother's farm in Southern Ontario,…
which borders on "Safari" -- a tacky tourist spot now deserted in the grey months of winter. From her mother's kitchen window Sophie sees not cows, or horses, or sheep, but a group of immense Indian elephants playing gracefully in the snow. There is a man too -- the keeper of the elephants -- and with a faraway gesture, barely discernible in the last light of dusk, he beckons to her. Sophie walks out, leaving behind for a moment the bleak melancholy that hangs over the farmhouse, and thus begins her Elephant Winter. Winner of the 1998 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award.The secret life of bees
By Sue Monk Kidd. 2002
South Carolina, 1964. Fourteen-year-old Lily rescues her African American housekeeper - and substitute mother - Rosaleen, from the hospital, where…
she is recovering from a beating received while trying to register to vote. They flee to a safe place where Lily's battered late mother had also fled - a beekeeping operation run by three black sisters. Some strong language. 2002.Un bébé alligator (Robert Munsch Ser.)
By Robert N Munsch. 1997
La maman de Christine va avoir un bébé. Les parents partent en vitesse, s'égarent, se retrouvent au zoo. Tout se…
passe bien. Ils reviennent avec un bébé... alligator... un bébé phoque... un bébé gorille. Christine se rend au zoo et trouve son frérot. Les animaux font irruption dans la maison pour reprendre leur progéniture. Années 1-3. 1997.L'hiver de Léo Polatouche ((Boréal junior) #Vol. 81)
By Nicole Leroux. 2003
Léo Polatouche est un écureuil volant. Avec les autres membres de sa famille une famille nomade, qui se déplace sur…
les cours d'eau, toujours à la recherche d'une nouvelle clairière où s'installer temporairement , il donne des spectacles : ce sont des funambules! Mais Léo a un problème : il est beaucoup plus petit que ses frères et soeurs, et, comme une de ses pattes n'a pas grandi normalement, elle l'empêche de tenir en équilibre sur le fil. Il est différent des autres. [...] -- 4e de couv.Monsieur Chatastrophe: une biographie de neuf vies
By Chris Pascoe, Irène Barki. 2007
C'est bien connu, les chats ont toujours fasciné les artistes. Léonard de Vinci n'hésitait d'ailleurs pas à les considérer comme…
des chefs-d'oeuvre. Mais qu'aurait-il dit en rencontrant Birmingham ? À onze ans, ce sympathique félidé n'arrive toujours pas à grandir. Doté d'un manque d'adresse et d'agilité peu commun, allergique à la campagne, prédateur médiocre, constamment humilié par ses congénères et autres petites bestioles, Brum enchaîne gaffe sur gaffe. Véritable accident ambulant, il n'en finit plus de désespérer son maître, compagnon d'infortune et néanmoins biographe, qui le trimballe au gré de sa vie amoureuse et attend, stoïque... la prochaine catastrophe, pour notre plus grand plaisir. Ce roman, tendre et drôle, ravira les passionnés des chats comme ceux pour qui ils restent un mystère insondable. -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: A cat called Birmingham.Thimble monkey superstar
By Jon Blake. 2016
Life is never boring now that Jams and his family have a monkey to look after. Jams and his mum…
love Thimble, but Dad is determined to get rid of him - to a zoo, a school, even a demolition site. But when Jams and his dad are in mortal danger, Thimble proves once and for all why he is a Monkey Superstar! Thimble is very clever and very naughty and just the best friend Jams has been waiting for. Grades 2-4. 2016.The cat that barked
By Budge Wilson. 1998
Stephanie Henderson's new cat is supposed to help adjust to her family's move from Peterborough to Halifax. She thinks he's…
great but he has one very strange trait, he barks! Grades 3-6.Stone soup
By Tony Bonning. 2001
A weary fox stops by a farm with the hope of getting some spare food, but when the stingy animals…
decide that they won't share with him, he resorts to his wily ways to get some. Asking for a "drop of water to make some soup," the fox pulls a pot from his backpack, lights a fire, and drops a stone into the pot. He then declares that the soup is "not quite right," wondering whether some salt and pepper, turnip, carrot, cabbage, and corn would enhance its flavour. Grades K-3. 2001.The frog castle
By Jostein Gaarder, James Anderson. 2000
A prince who has been turned into a frog, a little princess, a wicked lord chamberlain, a bold queen and…
a king whose heart has been stolen away, these are the people Gregory Peggory meets when he visits the Frog Castle. Grades 2-4. 1994. Uniform title: Froskeslottet.Zorgamazoo
By Robert Paul Weston. 2008
Imaginative and adventurous Katrina eludes her maniacal guardian to help Morty, a member of a vanishing breed of zorgles, with…
his quest to uncover the fate of the fabled zorgles of Zorgmazoo as well as of other creatures that seem to have disappeared from the earth. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 2010 Silver Birch Award for Fiction. 2008.Half brother
By Kenneth Oppel. 2010
In 1973, when a renowned Canadian behavioural psychologist pursues his latest research project - an experiment to determine whether chimpanzees…
can acquire advanced language skills - he brings home a baby chimp named Zan and asks his thirteen-year-old son to treat Zan like a little brother. Junior and Senior High. Winner of the 2012 Red Maple Fiction Award and the 2011 CLA Young Adult Book Award. 2010.The art of racing in the rain
By Garth Stein. 2008
Enzo, a mixed-breed dog, believes he will be reincarnated as a human. He stands by his master Denny Swift's side…
through Denny's race-car driving career, the birth of his daughter Zoë, the death of his wife Eve, and a bitter custody battle with Eve's parents. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2008.