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Charlotte's Web (E.B.White – SONLIGHT CURRICULUM TITLE) An affectionate, sometimes bashful pig named Wilbur befriends a spider named Charlotte, who lives in the rafters above his pen. A prancing, playful bloke, Wilbur is devastated when he learns of the destiny that befalls all those of porcine persuasion. Determined to save her friend, Charlotte spins a web that reads "Some Pig," convincing the farmer and surrounding community that Wilbur is no ordinary animal and should be saved. In this story of friendship, hardship, and the passing on into time, E.B. White reminds us to open our eyes to the wonder and miracle often found in the simplest of things. 7-10 YO A NEWBERY HONOR WINNER http://www.amazon.com/Charlottes-Web-Trophy-Newbery-White/dp/0064400557
Saddlebottom (Dick King-Smith) Dorothea, an aristocratic Wessex Saddleback pig, considers it a disgrace that one of her children has the white saddle-shaped patch on his bottom and not on his back. Saddlebottom runs away from home and meets a very unusual cat, and his fortunes change dramatically. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Saddlebottom-Puffin-Books-Dick-King-Smith/dp/0140321772
Sophie’s Tom (Dick King-Smith) A battle of wills develops when Sophie wants to take in Tom, a stray cat. Sophie's father does not like cats, but his small daughter is set on adding a live pet to her farm animals. http://www.alibris.com/search/books/qwork/6208940/used/Sophie's%20Tom (Cover different)
The Cat That Overcame (AKA ‘Pinky’) (Helen La Penta) I'll drop him from the boat, " the man says pointing to the tiny, pink-nosed kitten. "Tide, 'll carry him out"...Now, terrified, Pinky is stuffed into a dark box that jobs and sways sickeningly. Suddenly , it's tossed into the air, and lands smack! On the rocking waves Cold water is seeping in....the box in sinking...and Pinky is trapped inside. " 8-11 YO http://riverwoodsbooks.ecrater.com/product.php?pid=1350410
Taking The Cat’s Way Home (Jan Mark) Jane's cat Furlong walks to school with her every day, then he finds his own way home. When William, the new boy in the class, threatens Jane, its seems as though the only way she can escape him is to take Furlong's secret path. Great early chapter book 6-9 YO http://www.amazon.co.uk/Taking-Cats-Way-Home-Books/dp/0744569281
Just Plain Cat (Nancy K. Robinson) Chris didn’t think it was very friendly to have a NO CATS ALLOWED sign in the kitchen. After all, Tiger is too little to do anything wrong….isn’t he? But before too long, Chris finds out thet Tiger is determined to live up to his name. 7-10 YO http://www.amazon.co.uk/Just-Plain-Cat-Robinson-Nancy/dp/0590407783
It’s Like This, Cat (Emily Cheney Neville) Dave Mitchell, age fourteen, is an only child who doesn't seem to get along with his father, who is constantly lecturing his choice of music and friends. To make matters worse, Dave's mother has asthma attacks every time the two boys fight. It seems that the only person Dave can confide in is his neighbor, the crazy cat lady, the neighbourhood creep. He calls her Aunt Kate. It is Aunt Kate who introduces Dave to his new best friend, Cat, a stray tomcat whom Aunt Kate picked up off the streets. Cat accompanies Dave everywhere, from adventures to Central Park with Dave's buddy Nick to visiting Dave's older acquaintance, Tom, at Coney Island. 10+ A NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER http://www.amazon.com/Its-Like-This-Trophy-Newbery/dp/0064400735/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/104-4102143-1332717?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190704956&sr=1-2
One- Eyed Cat (Paula Fox) Ned fired the forbidden rifle just once, at a flickering shadow in the autumn moonlight. But someone -- a face, fleetingly seen staring at him from an attic window -- was watching. And when a one-eyed cat turns up at an elderly neighbour's woodshed, Ned is caught in a web of guilt, fear, and shame that he cannot escape -- until another moonlit night, come spring, brings redemption and surprising revelations. 9+ A NEWBERY HONOR WINNER http://www.amazon.com/One-Eyed-Cat-Paula-Fox/dp/0689839707/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-4102143-1332717?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190701019&sr=1-2
The 89th Kitten (Eleanor Nilsson) When Miss Berry retired she had hoped that she would have time to enjoy her home and garden. She found instead that she was very lonely in her immaculately clean house and her beautiful blue garden. Then she adopted Blackberry, a stray kitten that was starving. Blackberry became the first of many cats and kittens that found their way into Miss Berry’s garden and into a life of love and comfort. Helped by Sandy, her chatterbox neighbour, they rescue and care for eighty-nine felines until the local council demands they get rid of sixty-nine of them. How can they choose twenty cats to keep from all the rest? How can they find homes for sixty-nine cats and kittens? 8-11 YO
The Fledgling (Jane Langton) Georgie lives in an unconventional household, but even her rather unusual family does not truly understand her intense belief that she can fly. Then a Canadian goose enters her life. His are the guiding wings that allow Georgie to fulfill her dream. However, where there are dreams there are always those who, lacking imagination, will seek to destroy them in the name of common sense. Georgie discovers this to her sorrow, yet learns that in opening the sky to her, her friend has truly given her the world. 9+ A NEWBERY HONOR WINNER http://www.amazon.com/Fledgling-Jane-Langton/dp/0590434519/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-4102143-1332717?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190789662&sr=1-1
The Incredible Journey (Sheila Burnford – SONLIGHT CURRICULUM TITLE) Tells the story of of three pets, a Labrador retriever, bull terrier, and Siamese cat, who are stranded two hundred miles from home. They face many obstacles on their journey across the Canadian wilderness to reach home. 9-12 YO http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/0440226708/ref=dp_otherviews_0?ie=UTF8&s=books&img=0
The Hullabaloo At No. 13 (Gyles Brandreth) Hamlet Orlando Julius Caesar Brown awakes to find that the lion licking his face is actually a sweet little puppy and is determined to keep him. His mother protests so Hamlet sets off to find the real owner, making new friends and becoming involved in a pantomime in the process. 8-11 YO http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/THE-HULLABALOO-AT-No-13-GYLES-BRANDRETH_W0QQitemZ130129257290QQihZ003QQcategoryZ1093QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1713.m153.l1262#ebayphotohosting
The Adventures Of Wishbone "Dog Overboard!" (Vivian Sathre) Wishbone, a Beagle dog, imagines that he is David Balfour, the young Scottish Lowlander bound for adventure in Kidnapped, the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. http://www.amazon.ca/Dog-Overboard-Vivian-Sathre/dp/1570643679
The Snake That Went To School (Lilian Moore) Returning from summer camp is exciting, and for Hank Jenkins, it seems extra exciting because he's bringing home Puffy. Puffy is a snake, and a harmless one, a hog-nosed snake that puffs himself up and hisses. Puffy can even play dead, and Hank is very sure that his mother won't mind. Well, almost very sure. To give himself some time, he drapes his sweater over Puffy's cage until they get home. Is it love at first sight between Puffy and Mrs Jenkins? Absolutely not! 8-11 YO http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-images/0590407619/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_1?ie=UTF8&index=1#gallery
Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of Nimh (Robert O’Brien) There's something very strange about the rats living under the rosebush at the Fitzgibbon farm. But Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with a sick child, is in dire straits and must turn to these exceptional creatures for assistance. Soon she finds herself flying on the back of a crow, slipping sleeping powder into a ferocious cat's dinner dish, and helping 108 brilliant, laboratory-enhanced rats escape to a utopian civilization of their own design, no longer to live "on the edge of somebody else's, like fleas on a dog's back." O'Brien's incredible tale, along with Zena Bernstein's appealing ink drawings, ensures that readers will never again look at alley rats and field mice in the same way. 10+ WINNER OF THE NEWBERY AWARD http://www.amazon.com/Mrs-Frisby-Rats-Robert-OBrien/dp/0689206518 (Cover art different)
The Music Of The Dolphins (Karen Hesse) Mila has been raised by dolphins. When the Coast Guard discovers her, she is taken to a research facility and has to adjust to living with humans. She slowly acquires language and develops a love for music. Her love for music gives her insight into the human world yet allows her to remain connected to her dolphin world. Mila is very observant of her human caretakers and asks thought-provoking questions as to why humans behave as we do. 10+ http://www.amazon.com/Music-Dolphins-Karen-Hesse/dp/0590897985/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-4102143-1332717?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190705238&sr=1-2
Possum Perkins (William Taylor) What is it about Rosie Perkins, Michael wondered, that made everyone dislike her so much? She was bright; maybe it was because she was a loner....Strange family she had, her mum the town drunk! And what about that possum she was raising....... 10+ http://www.trademe.co.nz/Books/Young-adult-fiction/Author-SU/auction-145189640.htm
A Friend From The Woods (E.M. Watkins) A boy befriends a baby fox, but doesn’t realize that getting his heart’s desire would lead him into a great deal of trouble. 7-11 YO http://www.kidz-books.net/kidzbooks/viewinfo.aspx?id=5733 (A newer version)
The Grizzly (Annabel & Edgar Johnson) A young boy and his estranged father find themselves united for the first time on a camping trip, by facing the terrifying threat of a grizzly bear. 7-11 YO http://www.amazon.com/Grizzly-Annabel-Johnson/dp/0060228717
Green Watch “Gorilla Mountain” (Anthony Masters) Green Watch flies out to Africa to meet Alison Best and her husband John who are studying a family of gorillas. The Bests are trying to protect the gorillas from poachers. En route to meet John in the mountains Green Watch is ambushed and Alison is kidnapped. Left to fend for themselves in the bush, the Green Watch team have to find Alison and save the gorillas. Can anyone help them? And how can the poachers be stopped? 9-12 YO http://www.darkwoodonline.co.uk/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=66882&keyword=anthony+masters&searchby=author&offset=0&fs=1&CLSN_476=12077934824763e6d966f01756d8e6ee
Rascal (Sterling North) This first-person account tells the story of the author’s boyhood and his relationship with a rascally raccoon he discovered as an abandoned kit. North, Rascal and North's good-natured St. Bernard, Wowser, bounce from one adventure to the next. Set in 1918, Sterling's father is often absent and perpetually involved in research for a novel about Fox and Winnebago Indians. Sterling's mother is dead, and he is often left to his own devices. Rascal therefore enjoys such comforts as sleeping in Sterling's bed and attending the county fair. 9+ A NEWBERY HONOR WINNER http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?qwork=5549158&matches=683&author=North%2C+Sterling&browse=1&cm_sp=works*listing*title
Gray Wolf (Rutherford Montgomery) Tells the story of Speed, a grey wolf who lives a rough and tumble life in the harsh High Country in which he is born. In addition to battling the elements and hunger, Speed must face the challenges of human hunters and his own son, Loafer, a half-wolf determined to kill him at the behest of his human owners. Paints a realistic portrait of life from a wolf's point of view. 10+http://www.seriesbooks.com/graywolf.htm (Cover similar)
Take Care Of Dexter (Clyde Robert Bulla – author of Viking Adventure, SL title) This is the story of an old horse and a young boy who steps in to save its life. Dave befriends the strange new family and their pony, Dexter, when the rest of the townspeople remain aloof. 6-10 YO http://www.amazon.com/Take-Dexter-Clyde-Robert-Bulla/dp/B000P8L9Q6