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Author
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: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle was the second of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books to be published, comin out in 1922. It is nearly five times aslong as its predecessor and the writing style is pitched at a more mature audience. The scope of the novel is vast; it is divided into six parts and the illustration are also more sophisticated in the series that was adapted into the film Doctor Dolittle.
Author
Series
Imaginary veterinary volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
Spending the summer in his grandfather's rundown town, ten-year-old Ben meets an adventurous local girl and together they learn that the town's veterinarian runs a secret hospital for imaginary creatures.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
IG 850L
Language
English
Description
"Have you ever seen a germ up close? Really, really up close? Micrographs and illustrations combine with accessible text to introduce readers to viruses, bacteria, protozoa, and fungi-including COVID-19-that can make people sick"--
6) Dolittle
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle, famed doctor and veterinarian of Queen Victoria's England, hides behind the walls of Dolittle Manor with only his menagerie of exotic animals for company. But when the young queen falls gravely ill, a reluctant Dolittle is forced to set sail on an epic adventure to a mythical island in search of a cure. The doctor is joined on his quest by a young, self-appointed apprentice...
Author
Series
Calpurnia Tate volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
"In rural Texas in 1900, when a storm blows change into town in the form of a visiting veterinarian, twelve-year-old Callie discovers a life and a vocation she desperately wants. But with societal expectations as they are, she will need all her wits and courage to realize her dreams"--
9) Say good-bye
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
Seeing Jane's dog, Yum-Yum, help cheer up children in a cancer ward makes Zoe think about having her puppy, Sneakers, trained to do therapy, too, especially when Yum-Yum becomes very ill.
10) Trapped
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
Brenna, one of the volunteers at the Dr. Mac's Place animal clinic, is horrified to find a dog caught in a trap in the local nature preserve, but subsequent events prove that every story has two sides.
11) Manatee blues.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brenna, Maggie, and Zoe go to Florida to visit a manatee rescue center, where they learn about these endangered marine mammals.
12) Meet the vet
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
330L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Introduces veterinarians, the work that they do, and the equipment that they use.
13) Teacher's pet
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
Adjusting to middle school becomes easier for twelve-year-old Maggie when she finds that her biology teacher, who is blind, can learn a few things from her about working with his guide dog.
Author
Series
Imaginary veterinary volume 5
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ten-year-olds Pearl and Ben, continuing their apprenticeships at Dr. Woo's Worm Hospital, discover that Dr. Woo and the sasquatch are both sick with Troll Tonsillitis, and they must travel to the Imaginary World to find the only cure: a griffin's feather"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Cuban-born eleven-year-old Oriol lives in Santa Barbara, California, where she struggles to belong. But most of the time that's okay, because she enjoys helping her parents care for the many injured animals at their veterinary clinic. Then Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature, moves to town, and aspiring writer Oriol finds herself opening up. As she begins to create a world of words for herself, Oriol learns...
Author
Series
Imaginary veterinary volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
At Dr. Woo's Worm Hospital, Pearl and Ben are greeted with some bad news. A human has been spotted in the Imaginary World! Dr. Woo suspects it might be Maximus Steele -- a poacher with his sights set on prized animal horns. What creature will he attack next? Will it be a unicorn? Together, Pearl, Ben, and Dr. Woo travel to the Tangled Forest. It's an amazing, colorful, and wild place. Ultimately, the responsibility falls to Pearl to find the lost...
Author
Series
Bad Kitty (Chapter books) volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Scratching and clawing his way to the vet, an under-the-weather Bad Kitty receives a shot that causes him to have a vivid dream about needing to resolve differences with Puppy in order to gain entrance to PussyCat Heaven.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Horace Homer Higgins III despises dirt. And the outdoors. And ducks. But when his person, Eleanor, moves to a farm called the Homestead, the anxious Boston Terrier is forced to adapt. As if that isn't enough to strain his nerves, Ellie adopts a perpetually cheerful potbellied pig named Bunwinkle to be his baby sister. Bunwinkle is delighted to be on the farm despite the stuffy demeanor of her new canine brother. She's sure she'll crack his shell eventually-no...
19) Bark, George
Author
Series
George (Jules Feiffer) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 350L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mother dog tries to teach her pup how to bark, and is surprised at why he wasn't learning.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Garfield's owner, Jon, takes in sweet, but dimwitted pooch Odie, turning Garfield's perfect world upside-down. Now Garfield wants only one thing: Odie out of his home and his life! But when the hapless pup disappears and is kidnapped by a nasty dog trainer, Garfield, feeling responsible, tears himself away from the TV and springs into action.
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