Scottsdale Public Library

Animals star in these stories!

Avi / The Good Dog / Grades 3-6
McKinley, a malamute, is torn between the domestic world of his human family and the wild world of Lupin, a wolf that is trying to recruit dogs to join his wolf pack.

Farmer, Nancy / The Warm Place / Grades 4-6
When Ruva, a young giraffe, is captured and sent to a zoo in San Francisco, she calls upon two rats, a street-smart chameleon, a runaway boy, to return to the warm place that is home.

Hoeye, Michael / The Sands of Time / Grades 5-8
Despite fierce opposition from mouse supremacists of Pinchester, three mice team up with an old chipmunk to prove that there existed, long before the time of mice, a Cat Kingdom.

Jacques, Brian / Redwall / Grades 4-6
Matthias, a young mouse, searches for the legendary sword of Martin the Warrior, hoping that it will help Redwall's inhabitants defeat the evil rat, Cluny, and his followers.

James, Mary / Shoebag / Grades 4-6
Shoebag, a happy young cockroach who finds himself suddenly changed into a little boy, changes the lives of those around him before returning to his former life as an insect.

King-Smith, Dick / A Mouse Called Wolf / Grades 2-4
A mouse with an unusual name shares his musical gift with a widowed concert pianist.

Reiche, Dietlof / I, Freddy / Grades 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.

Selden, George / The Cricket in Times Square / Grades 3-6
A Connecticut cricket named Chester hops a ride in a picnic basket and ends up in New York City, where he helps a boy, a fmouse and a local cat rescue a near-bankrupt newsstand.

Stilton, Geronimo / Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye / Grades 2-5
When a map is discovered showing a secret treasure on a faraway island, the mice of "The Rodent's Gazette" begin a treasure hunt.

Wallace, Bill / Watchdog and the Coyotes / Grades 4-7
A Great Dane learns to be more assertive when he becomes friends with an Irish setter and a beagle.

White, E.B. / The Trumpet of the Swan / Grades 3-6
Louis finds himself far from his wilderness home and is determined to communicate by learning to play a stolen trumpet.