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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Traces the author's discovery of a half-frozen kitten in the drop-box of her small-community Iowa library and the feline's development into an affable library mascot whose intuitive nature prompted hundreds of abiding friendships, in a tale told against a backdrop of the town's struggles with the 1980s farm crisis.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
This volume contains inspiring, funny, and heartwarming stories about cats told from the perspective of Dewey's Mom, librarian Myron. Includes never-before-told stories about Dewey, along with other touching cat tales.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen enjoys the winter months of Crozet, Virginia, by sipping hot toddies and cheering for the University of Virginia's Women's basketball team until hot tempered contractor H.H. Donaldson suspiciously dies and she sets out to solve the mystery.
Author
Series
Discworld (Young adult) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
A talking cat, intelligent rats, and a strange boy cooperate in a Pied Piper scam until they try to con the wrong town and are confronted by a deadly evil rat king. One rat, popping up here and there, squeaking loudly, and taking a bath in the cream, could be a plague all by himself. After a few days of this, it was amazing how glad people were to see the kid with his magical rat pipe. And they were amazing when the rats followed hint out of town....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
This balmy summer in Crozet, Virginia, postmistress Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen has a lot to think about. Things have been pretty cozy between her and her ex-husband, Fair and her beloved old post office is in danger of being replaced with a modern building-and modern rules. Harry's thoughtful contemplation is shattered the day she stumbles over a dead body near Potlicker Creek. Barry Monteith, the handsome local horse breeder, has been savagely...
Author
Series
Anna Korlov series volume 2
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Months after Anna Korlov opened a door to Hell and sacrificed herself for seventeen-year-old ghost hunter Cas Lowood, persistent visions of Anna being tortured cause Cas to decide to save her as she once saved him.
9) Shadow
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the summer when her older brothers' fighting escalates dangerously, thirteen-year-old Sarah becomes increasingly aware of her ability to sense things that others cannot, including the presence of her beloved dead cat.
Author
Series
Anna Korlov series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
"Cas Lowood always knew that he would inherit the family vocation: killing the dead. An untimely and gruesome murder left a young Cas fatherless and barely ready to take on his mantle--but with no other choice. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. They follow legends and local lore, destroy the murderous dead, and keep pesky things like the future...
11) Catch as cat can
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Spring fever comes to the small town of Crozet, Virginia. As the annual Dogwood Festival approaches, postmistress Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen feels her own mating instincts stir. As for tiger cat Mrs. Murphy, feline intuition tells her there's more in the air than just pheromones. It begins with a case of stolen hubcaps and proceeds to the mysterious death of a dissolute young mechanic over a sobering cup of coffee. Then another death and a...
12) Pet sematary
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
"When Dr. Louis Creed takes a new job and moves his family to the idyllic rural town of Ludlow, Maine, this new beginning seems too good to be true. Yet despite Ludlow's tranquility, an undercurrent of danger exists here. Those trucks on the road outside the Creeds' beautiful old home travel by just a little too quickly, for one thing ... as is evidenced by the makeshift pet cemetary in the nearby woods. Then there are the warnings to Louis, both...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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While going to the home of a vacationing client in Sarasota, Florida, professional pet-sitter Dixie Hemingway, a former sheriff's deputy, stumbles upon the corpse of a mysterious intruder, sending Dixie on a search for her missing client.
Author
Series
Catnet volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Because her mother is always on the move, sixteen-year-old Steph hasn't lived anywhere longer than six months. Her only constant is an online community called CatNet, a social media site where users upload cat pictures and the admin is CheshireCat, a sentient AI who loves cat pictures. When a threat from Steph's past catches up to her and CheshireCat's existence is discovered, it's up to Steph and her friends, both online and IRL, to save them. A...
15) Lord of the Kill
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
With his parents in India, sixteen-year-old Ben Jepson is in charge of Los Coyotes Preserve, a refuge for big cats near Los Angeles, when two powerful groups try to shut it down by intimidation, murder, and kidnapping the largest tiger in captivity.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Exhibiting wit and extraordinary insight, Caroline Alexander sheds fresh light on Sir Ernest Shackleton's well-documented 1914 expedition to Antarctica, in which no human life was lost. From actual journals kept by the explorers, she creates a marvelous diary of the expedition, written from the viewpoint of a world-weary cat.
As the Endurance prepares to sail, the shipwright's curious tomcat hides deep within the hold. When crew members discover...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A fictional columnist Jim Qwilleran presents a collection of stories that spotlights the colorful world of Moose County and its residents in such legends as "The Secret of the Blacksmith's Wife" and "The Dimsdale Jinx."
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
By the author of Modoc:A famed trainer's "wonderful" memoir of his bond with a lion—and his quest to change how animals were treated in Hollywood (People).
When Ralph Helfer, author of Modoc and one of Hollywood's top animal behaviorists, first began working, he was shocked by the cruelty that was accepted practice in the field. He firmly believed in "affection training"—that love, not fear, should be the...
When Ralph Helfer, author of Modoc and one of Hollywood's top animal behaviorists, first began working, he was shocked by the cruelty that was accepted practice in the field. He firmly believed in "affection training"—that love, not fear, should be the...
19) Sniper
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Ben must cope alone when a mysterious sniper begins shooting the big cats in his family's private zoological preserve.
20) Marsh cat
Author
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
A huge, wild cat faces new dangers when he moves from his marshland home to a barn during the winter months.
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