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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Description
The Call of the Wild, by Jack London, is one of America's best-known novels. In his Reader's Companion to this new edition, Daniel Dyer provides a wealth of annotations explaining the book's many "sourdough" expressions and geographical references in order to help the modern reader see what London saw. Dyer also identifies characters in the novel - human and canine alike - whom London had known, and he spices his annotations with Northern lore and...
2) Wolf brother
Author
Series
Chronicles of ancient darkness volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Six thousand years in the past, twelve-year-old Tarak and his guide, a wolf cub, set out on a dangerous journey to fulfill an oath the boy made to his dying father--to travel to the Mountain of the World Spirit seeking a way to destroy a demon-possessed bear that threatens all the clans.
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Language
English
Description
"In this stunning debut novel, the maligned and immortal witch of legend known as Baba Yaga will risk all to save Russia and her people from Tsar Ivan the Terrible--and the dangerous gods who seek to drive the twisted hearts of men. As a half-goddess possessing magic, Yaga is used to living on her own, her prior entanglements with mortals having led to heartbreak. She mostly keeps to her hut in the woods, where those in need of healing seek her out,...
5) The crossing
Author
Series
Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
In the 1930s, two teenage brothers whose ranch in New Mexico was raided by bandits, cross into Mexico to search for stolen horses. The novel follows them through the revolution-torn countryside, meeting soldiers, peasants, priests and thieves, all proffering advice.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Set against the most dramatic time in our species' history, The Dog Master tells the story of one tribe's struggle for survival and one extraordinary man's bond with a wolf-a friendship that changed mankind forever... Thirty thousand years ago, ice was storming the planet. Among the species forced out of the trees and onto the steppes by the advancing cold was modern man, who was both predator and prey. No stranger to the experiences that make us...
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Language
English
Description
1867. Winter has just tightened its grip on Dove River, an isolated settlement in Canada's Northern Territory, when a man is brutally murdered. A local woman, Mrs. Ross, stumbles upon the crime scene and sees tracks leading from the dead man's cabin north toward the forest and the tundra beyond. But soon she makes another discovery: her son has disappeared and is now considered a prime suspect. A variety of outsiders are drawn to the crime and to...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
After Thomas Carrier saves Martha Allen from a wolf attack, he discovers wild animals are not the only dangers lurking in the Massachusetts woods: assassins have arrived from London to capture Charles I's executioner, said to be living outside Boston under an assumed name.
9) White Fang
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Series
Language
English
Description
"In the fierce arctic, a wild wolf-dog becomes a savage hunter who must also learn the harsh ways of mankind. Is it possible to redeem the heart of White Fang who has known little kindness?"--Page [4] of cover.
10) The wolf's cub
Author
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Nathan Blaylock, the illegitimate son of Wyatt Earp, is on a search for his own lost child, but his pursuit is sidetracked when he agrees to hunt for a party of pioneers who have gotten stranded while on their way to Alaska and becomes involved in a plot to influence the control of the Isthmus of Panama.
11) The wolving time
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
In France during a time of witch-hunts, in a village with a corrupt priest, thirteen-year-old Laszlo longs to be able to turn into a wolf as his parents can, but also desires the friendship of a village girl.
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