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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Margaret Douglas, who's been a supporting player in bestseller Johansen's Eve Duncan series (Silencing Eve, etc.), takes center stage in this exciting standalone. As a volunteer at the San Diego Zoo in California, Margaret has been making good use of her psychic ability to communicate with animals such as Zaran, a stubborn tigress who refuses to accept her cub. Late one night, just as she shuts Zaran's cage, Margaret feels a gun in her back. John...
2) Devoted
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Woody Bookman hasn't spoken a word in his eleven years of life. Not when his father died in a freak accident. Not when his mother, Megan, tells him she loves him. For Megan, keeping her boy safe and happy is what matters. But Woody believes a monstrous evil was behind his father's death and now threatens him and his mother. And he's not alone in his thoughts. An ally unknown to him is listening. A uniquely gifted dog with a heart as golden as his...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 283 pages : black & white illustrations, maps, photographs ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"What if animals and humans could speak to one another? Tom Mustill-the nature documentarian who went viral when a thirty ton humpback whale breached onto his kayak-asks this question in his thrilling investigation into whale science and animal communication. "When a whale is in the water, it is like an iceberg: you only see a fraction of it and have no conception of its size." On September 12, 2015, Tom Mustill was paddling in a two-person kayak...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Descended from shy, solitary North African wild cats, domestic cats set up homes with devoted owners all over the world by learning how to talk to us. This book translates--in case you missed anything. A renowned cat behavior scientist of over thirty years, Dr. Sarah Brown has been at the forefront of research in the field, discovering how cats use tail signals to interact with each other and their owners. Now, she reveals the previously unexplored...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
28 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes how cats communicate with people through their behavior and sounds and explains how to talk back to them using sounds, behavior, and body language.
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Provides explanations from experts and scientists about cat behaviors, including playtime, territorial, and communication behaviors"--
10) The Goose Girl
Author
Series
The Books of Bayern volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
383 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
On her way to marry a prince she's never met, Princess Anidori is betrayed by her guards and her lady-in-waiting and must become a goose girl to survive until she can reveal her true identity and reclaim the crown that is rightfully hers.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Becoming the assistant to animal behaviorist Guy Schermerhorn and his juvenile chimp, Aimee Villard finds herself in an interspecies love triangle that pushes hard at the boundaries of consciousness and the question of what we know and how we know it.
12) Bee dance
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (various pages) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A honeybee searches for nectar, then returns to the hive to tell the other bees. She does a waggle dance, moving in a special figure-eight pattern to share the location of the foodsource with her hivemates. With vivid and active images, Rick Chrustowski brings these amazing bees to life!"--
13) Devoted
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Woody Bookman hasn't spoken a word in his eleven years of life. Not when his father died in a freak accident. Not when his mother, Megan, tells him she loves him. For Megan, keeping her boy safe and happy is what matters. But Woody believes a monstrous evil was behind his father's death and now threatens him and his mother. And he's not alone in his thoughts. An ally unknown to him is listening. A uniquely gifted dog with a heart as golden as his...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Marlin, a stutterer, can talk smoothly and freely with the jungle animals that populate his father's zoo in South America--until a mysterious man-eating black jaguar that his father catches and brings back home talks back"--
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After losing her mom. Willa is grieving and having a hard time living with her dad and his new family on an island off the coast of Washington State. Her dad tries to cheer her up by taking her whale watching, something Willa's mom used to do. While all the passengers are on one side of the boat, Will encounters a humpback whale on the opposite side. Willa feels so lonely that she starts to talk to the whale--and the whale talks back! The whale, named...
Author
Series
Daisy Dawson volume no. 4
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st U.S. pbk. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
87 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Spending the whole summer at the beach, a girl who can communicate with animals and her new friends--a dancing crab and two baby rabbits--join forces to help a dolphin in distress.
Author
Series
Thickety volume 2
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
517 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Deep within the dangerous Thickety, Kara and her brother, Taff, must figure out who and what to trust in order to escape and stop the evil Sordyr"--
Author
Series
Legends of Lotus Island volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
147 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Young Plum is shocked to discover that she's been accepted to the Guardian Academy on Lotus Island, an elite school where kids learn how to transform into Guardians, magical creatures who are sworn to protect the natural world. The Guardian masters teach Plum and her friends how to communicate with animals and how to use meditation to strengthen their minds and bodies. All the kids also learn to fight, so they can protect the defenseless if needed....
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
After the amulet that allows her to understand her animal friends go missing, Sofia sets out to find it before Cedric can use it to take over the kingdom.