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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 26
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
In All Creatures Great and Small, we meet the young Herriot as he takes up his calling and discovers that the realities of veterinary practice in rural Yorkshire are very different from the sterile setting of veterinary school. From caring for his patients in the depths of winter on the remotest homesteads to dealing with uncooperative owners and critically ill animals, Herriot discovers the wondrous variety and never-ending challenges of veterinary...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
A Yorkshire veterinarian describes the adventures and experiences of his career as he tends to sick cattle, pregnant ewes, ailing dogs, and their eccentric owners, in a celebration of the relationships between human and animal.
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Series
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
This fifth and final installment in James Herriot's heartwarming collection brings back familiar friends (including old favorites such as Tricki Woo) and introduces new ones, including Herriot's children Rosie and Jimmy and the marvelously eccentric vet Calum Buchanan.
Author
Language
English
Description
Ten more delightful stories from the pen of the world's most beloved veterinarian-guaranteed to delight the Yorkshire vet's worldwide legions of fans… When you enter the world of James Herriot's Animal Stories, you'll share his wonder and humor, his adventures and misadventures as he contends with pet owners and landowners; rough-spoken farmers and soft-spoken gentry; orphaned lambs, litters of piglets and puppies, cattle and draught horses; and...
Author
Language
English
Description
In James Herriot’s fourth volume of superb memoirs the Yorkshire Dales are smiling on him. He now has a lovely wife by his side, a partner’s plate on the gate and the usual menagerie of farm animals, pets and owners. Meanwhile, Siegfried is thrashing around the practice, Tristan is (occasionally) buckling down to his finals and James is signed up for a local cricket team.
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Series
Language
English
Formats
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Amanda Owen loves her traditional life on her hill farm alongside her nine children and husband Clive. And, as readers of her previous bestsellers will know, every day at Ravenseat brings surprises. In Adventures of the Yorkshire Shepherdess Amanda takes us from her family's desperate race to save a missing calf to finding her bra has been repurposed as a house martin's nest, and from wild swimming to the brutal winter of 2018 that almost brought...
10) Vet in a spin
Author
Language
English
Description
Strapped into the cockpit of a Tiger Moth trainer, Herriot has swapped his wellingtons and breeches for sheepskin boots and a flying suit. Very soon the vet-turned-airman is grounded, and back to his old life in the Dales.
Author
Pub. Date
c1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Yorkshire veterinarian James Herriot shares the story of a good natured stray dog he first encountered begging at the market, and which was later "arrested" by a local police officer and kept as a willing prisoner of the man's young daughters.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In this heartwarming collection of favorite stories about dogs great and small, James Herriot tells us about his own dogs and all the wonderful people and animals we have come to love so much. Fifty memorable tales move us to both laughter and tears, and Herriot's personal introduction and notes make this tribute by a master storyteller to man's best friend a book to read, reread, and be treasured for years to come.
18) Bonny's big day
Author
Pub. Date
1987.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Farmer Skipton is persuaded to enter his old carthorse, Bonny, in the Darrowby Pet Show.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Every day at Ravenseat, a remote Yorkshire hill farm, brings new adventures for shepherdess Amanda Owen, her husband Clive and their children. In her latest book, Amanda describes how they live in tune with the age-old cycles of the farming year as they tend their sheep on some of the country's highest, bleakest moors.
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