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Recommended Reading

In a constant struggle against oppression, a group of rabbits search for peaceful co-existence.

More concerned with the dynamics of his flight than with gathering food, Jonathan is scorned by the other seagulls.

After a terrible accident, Grace retreats into silence and her horse, Pilgrim, is driven mad by pain. Her mother gambles that The Whisperer can heal both Pilgrim and her daughter.

A family’s two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard is transformed by rabies and the insidious guidance of demonic forces into a terrifying monster.

The adventures of an unusual dog that was kidnapped and shipped off to Alaska to work on the Klondike Gold Rush.

John Grady Cole, 16, leaves Texas for Mexico in 1950 and becomes an essential vaquero in a hacienda’s program.

The story of Captain Ahab’s obsession with the great white whale that crippled him.

A satire on totalitarianism in which farm animals overthrow their human owner and set up their own government.

Zookeeper’s son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.

A novel set in the world of thoroughbred racing follows a group of trainers, jockeys, and “track brats” on a two-year journey through the racing cycle.

Traces a boy’s journey into manhood after his father gives him a pony to train and care for.

A haunting book about the effects of science and human attempts to alter nature.