Animal For Teens

Growing up without parents and without schooling, 14-year-old Cloyd is trouble - trouble to himself and everyone else. Sent by his tribe to a home for Indian boys, he is alone and half-wild in remote Utah canyons. As his feeling of isolation turns to desperation, he runs away to find even more trouble. When Cloyd is found and taken to live with an old rancher, he begins to explore the countryside.

It all started when Georgie, hardly more than a wisp of thistledown, discovered she could jump down twelve steps in two big graceful bounds. Next, to her great delight, she learned that jumping from the porch and floating as high as the rooftop was possible too. So when the mysterious Canada goose appeared at her window one night it seemed only natural to climb onto his back and go off with him to learn how to really fly. But no one wants Georgie flying.

Living in foster homes for the last six years, David now has trouble making friends and keeping up in school. More than anything in the world, he just wants something to call his own. He thinks he's found that something when he hatches an owl named King Arthur with the help of his "girl genius" friend, Mab. But when it looks like King Arthur must be set free, David learns a powerful lesson. The real "good stuff" in life isn't something he can own.

Grace Delaney and her fellow dance students are en route to perform on a South Pacific cruise ship when a freak storm hits and they find themselves stranded on a seemingly deserted island. With the tropical heat rising, passions and tensions swell to breaking point. And the island itself is quietly steaming with a terrible secret....

"Wolfsblut" - ein Klassiker der Jugend- und Abenteuerliteratur. Der junge Wolf lernt das Leben in der Wildnis kennen, doch seine Mutter ist nur zur Hälfte Wolf. Und es gibt auch in Wolfsblut Instinkte, die ihn die Gesellschaft des Menschen suchen lassen... Packender Roman über Kälte, Natur, das Leben in der Wildnis - und die Freundschaft von Mensch und Tier.

Small town 17-year-old Vivienne Taylor is a talented equestrian with Olympic dreams and a little something extra going on - she is also an "equine empath", someone who has the ability to read horses’ minds and moods. When she receives a full scholarship to attend Fairmont Riding Academy, a prep school with a famous riding program, she struggles with homesickness, hazing by the school’s snooty drama queen, intense competition in the sport of three-day-eventing, and the not-altogether-unwelcome interest of a hot guy. On top of all of that the horse given to Vivienne via the scholarship is an animal that she cannot "read" or understand.

Three very different, heartwarming stories about man's best friend. "Dollypogs" by David Thorn, "Brown Wolf" by Jack London and "His Dog" by Albert Payson Terhune. Dog lovers will love the variety of stories, each touching the heart in a different way.

In this personal, moving essay, youth activist Hannah Testa shares with listeners how she led a grassroots political campaign to successfully pass state legislation limiting single-use plastics and how she influenced global businesses to adopt more sustainable practices. Through her personal journey, listeners can learn how they, too, can follow in Hannah's footsteps and lower their carbon footprint by simply refusing single-use plastics.

In The Shoe Bird, Jim Dale brings to life a flock of unforgettable bird characters: Arturo the parrot, Gloria the goose, Minerva the owl, and even the extinct Dodo! This is Eudora Welty's fantastical story of how some feathered friends made a fateful switch from flying to wearing shoes, little knowing that they would soon become the prey of Freddy the Cat!

Trau keiner Katze! Diese Warnung ihrer getöteten Mutter Ringelfeder liegt der jungen FlussClan-Schülerin Frostpfote schwer auf dem Herzen. Und doch macht sie sich auf den Weg zum WindClan, um bei der Heilerschülerin Pfeifpfote Rat zu suchen. Als sie hinterrücks angegriffen und schwer verletzt wird, ist ihr endgültig klar, dass sie ihre Aufgabe nicht alleine bewältigen kann und den SternenClan aufsuchen muss. Endlich ist Flussstern bereit, ihr die Zukunft zu weisen.

In the animated tale 'Circus Animals,' an unlikely band of circus animals joins forces in an epic adventure in New Orleans to save a lioness and her cub from the clutches of evil carnival workers. Set within the dazzling yet deceptive circus world, where the line between spectacle and exploitation blurs, this story highlights the dark undercurrents of animal mistreatment hidden beneath the sparkle of entertainment. Unlike their callous ringmaster, these animals demonstrate an extraordinary capacity for empathy and unity.

Die 25-jährige Nina hat mit Pferden eigentlich nichts am Hut. Eigentlich. Denn sie bemerkt schnell, dass die Pferde ihr die Ruhe geben, die sie am meisten sucht. Und dann ist da auch noch die Kaltblutstute Fiola, die ihre Aufmerksamkeit auf sich zieht. Irgendetwas ist an ihr anders als an den anderen Pferden. Wenn Nina sie verstehen will, muss sie all ihren Mut zusammen nehmen.

At 23, Jane Goodall made her first voyage to Africa and began her determined steps to achieve her goal of studying animals by living among them. In My Life with the Chimpanzees, she shares the remarkable journey which took her from her childhood in London to the realization of her dream in the wilds of Gombe, Tanzania.

This touching, short story recounts the tragic loss and the miraculous recovery of a family pet. Based entirely on actual events, Miracle at Seeleys Cove provides a first-hand, emotional account of a family's resourcefulness, perseverance and exceptional luck in overcoming seemingly impossible odds to find and bring back home their beloved, feathered family member. It's a story that will resonate loudly with anyone, from teens and young adults to seniors and everyone in between, who has ever known the unique and profound joy one can derive from caring for a pet.

Fully Staffed begins in 1980 with the story of Spike, aka Mr. Wigs, a beautiful Golden Labrador who melts the hearts of everyone he meets, and breaks the hearts of the ones he leaves behind. As a puppy, he surprises all the vets by surviving a life-threatening disease, and goes on to enjoy a long, happy and healthy life. Several years later we meet Spike, then Jake - both Staffordshire Bull Terriers, but totally different in every way. Spike is the bruiser, while Jake is the social butterfly.

Ein eigenes Pferd bedeutet viel Verantwortung. Ganz besonders, wenn man absoluter Anfänger auf diesem Gebiet ist. Und das Pferd nicht ganz gesund. Doch als wäre das nicht schon genug, wird Nina von ihrem Reitlehrer Simon mit einer herausfordernden Aufgabe betraut. Um seiner Schwester Emelie zu helfen, muss Nina viel Mut aufbringen und über sich selbst hinauswachsen.

Alys was seven when the soul eaters came to her village. These soul eaters, twin sisters who were abandoned by their father and slowly morphed into something not quite human, devour human souls. Alys, and all the other children, were spared - and they were sent to live in a neighboring village. There the devout people created a strict world where good and evil are as fundamental as the nursery rhymes children sing. Fear of the soul eaters - and of the Beast they believe guides them - rules village life.

The Robot Federation and the Feline Empire have been at war for eons. And now that fight is coming to a tiny primitive planetoid…Earth. The mission for both cats and robots: retrieve the Singularity Chip. With it, cats can live past their nine lives, and robots are granted eternal battery life.

At an elite summer program, a teen girl gets sucked into a secret society, with deadly consequences. Protect the girls. Arlee Gold has always lived in the shadow of her successful mom; even after everything Arlee’s been through, her mother still expects nothing but the best. In an effort to get her daughter back on track after a less-than-stellar few school years, she’s enrolled Arlee as a legacy at Camp Rockaway, an elite college prep summer camp deep in the North Carolina wilderness.

Seit Urzeiten leben die Clans nach dem Gesetz der Krieger. Doch es muss sich zum Wohle aller verändern. Die neue Generation bricht mit veralteten Traditionen: Das Gesetz der Krieger muss erneuert werden, damit die Katzen aller Clans gemeinsam in Frieden leben können. Als der FlussClan urplötzlich vom Schicksal getroffen wird und um sein Überleben kämpfen muss, brechen Vorurteile und Misstrauen wieder auf. Die drei jungen Katzen Flammenpfote, Sonnenstrahl und Frostpfote werden inmitten dieser Unruhen groß und ahnen noch nicht, wie wichtig sie für das Wohl der Clans werden.