Animal Stories


The following are suggestions of animal stories. Clicking on a book title will take you to the library catalog, where you can request the book or learn more information about it. Want even more reading suggestions? Ask a librarian.

LocationTitle/AuthorGradeSynopsis
J & Pbk / Atw Mr. Popper's Penguins
Atwater, Richard		 3 - 6 The unexpected delivery of a large crate containing an Antarctic penguin changes the life and fortunes of Mr. Popper.
J / Avi The Mayor of Central Park
Avi		 4 - 7 Oscar Westerwit, a squirrel, fights back when a gangster rat named Big Daddy Duds moves uptown in the year 1900, invade Central Park, and evict Oscar and his animal friends from their homes.
J / Cle Henry and Ribsy
Cleary, Beverly		 4 - 6 In order to go fishing with his dad, Henry Huggins must make sure his dog, Ribsy, stays out of trouble. Series: Henry Huggins
J & Pbk / Cre Love That Dog
Creech, Sharon		 5 - 8 A young student, who comes to love poetry through an understanding of what different famous poems mean to him, surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem.
J & Pbk / Dah The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Dahl, Roald		 4 - 6 Three farmers, each one meaner than the other, try all-out warfare to get rid of the fox and his family.
J & Pbk / Dic Because of Winn-Dixie
DiCamillo, Kate		 4 - 7 India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.
J / Eck Incident at Hawk's Hill
Eckert, Allan		 4 - 7 A shy, lonely six-year-old wanders into the Canadian prairie and spends a summer under the protection of a badger. Sequel: Return to Hawk's Hill
J / Fre The Trouble with Cats
Freeman, Martha		 2 - 4 After a difficult first week of third grade, Holly begins to adjust to her new school and living in her new stepfather's tiny apartment with his four cats.
J & Pbk / Hen Misty of Chincoteague
Henry, Marguerite		 4 - 8 Two youngsters' determination to own a Chincoteague pony is greatly increased when the Phantom and her colt are among those rounded up for the yearly auction.
J Pbk / Hob Jackie's Wild Seattle
Hobbs, Will		 5 - 8 Fourteen-year-old Shannon and her little brother, Cody, spend the summer with their uncle, helping at a wildlife rescue center named Jackie's Wild Seattle.
J & Pbk / How Bunnicula
Howe, James		 3 - 5 Though scoffed at by Harold the dog, Chester the cat tries to warn his human family that their foundling baby bunny must be a vampire.
J & Pbk / Ibb Island of the Aunts
Ibbotson, Eva		 4 - 7 As they get older, several sisters decide that they must kidnap children and bring them to their secluded island home to help with the work of caring for an assortment of unusual sea creatures.
J / Kin The Nine Lives of Aristotle
King-Smith, Dick		 2 - 4 Aristotle, a little white kitten, goes to live with a witch in an old cottage, where he finds so many opportunities for risky adventures that he soon has only one life left.
J / Law Rabbit Hill
Lawson, Robert		 5 - 7 New folks are coming to live in the Big House. The animals of Rabbit Hill wonder if they will plant a garden and thus be good providers.
J & Pbk / Nay Shiloh
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds		 5 - 8 When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner. Series: Shiloh Trilogy
J / Obr Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
O'Brien, Robert		 4 - 8 Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived.
J & Pbk / Opp Silverwing
Oppel, Kenneth		 4 - 6 When a newborn bat named Shade but sometimes called "Runt" becomes separated from his colony during migration, he grows in ways that prepare him for even greater journeys. Series: Silverwing Saga
J & Pbk / Rei I, Freddy
Reich, Dietlof		 4 - 6 Freddy, a remarkably intelligent golden hamster, learns how to read and how to write on a computer and escapes captivity to become an independent and civilized creature. Series: Golden Hamster Saga
J / Rya Paint the Wind
Ryan, Pam Muñoz		 4 - 8 After her grandmother has a stroke, Maya leaves her life in California to stay with her mother's family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters a wild mare that her mother once rode.
J / Sel The Cricket in Times Square
Selden, James		 4 - 7 A country cricket falls into a picnic basket and ends up in New York City.
J Pbk / She Letters From Wolfie
Sherlock, Patti		 5 - 8 Certain that he is doing the right thing by donating his dog, Wolfie, to the Army's scout program in Vietnam, Mark begins to have second thoughts when the Army refuses to say when and if Wolfie will ever return.
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