Animal Teen Fiction

Piper’s life is turned upside down when her family moves into a shelter in a whole new city. She misses her house, her friends, and her privacy - and she hates being labeled the homeless girl at her new school. But while Hope House offers her new challenges, it also brings new friendships, like the girls in Firefly Girls Troop 423 and a sweet street dog named Baby. So when Baby’s person goes missing, Piper knows she has to help.

What the world needs now is an audio book narrated by a snarky cat named Skitters. When this over-sized sack of stripes finds himself upgraded from life in a parking garage to a mansion in Utah, all seems to be well. Then Skitters takes up with Harriet, a fiery feline who belongs to a little girl living in a polygamist cult.

Jason is born the son of King Aeson. His destiny is to rule Iolcus, the land that his father's brother, King Pelias, has taken from him. When Jason comes of age, he returns to Iolcus. But the king is not yet willing to give up his throne. So he cunningly persuades Jason to accept a dare to bring back the famous Golden Fleece of Colchis. Jason accepts the challenge, unaware that he is being conned into a dangerous and perhaps fatal journey far, far from the land he loves.

A tempest off the coast of Krynn threatens to overwhelm Planthas, and once again the Wizard's Conclave sends Nearra on a treacherous journey. As Nearra works to uncover the Crescent Cabal's machinations, her sister Jirah struggles in the service of her newfound anonymous god. With the storm raging around them, Nearra must locate the Queen of the Sea and the Pillar of Water. But will the evil Crescent Cabal find them first?

Every once in a while a great race horse is born that will become famous throughout the land. This book is about such a horse. Perhaps even rarer comes a truly wonderful story about a horse and the human being closest to it. Two beings, horse and human, are bound in an unspoken love and respect which draws the finest from both of them. This book by award-winning author Kathleen Peyton, tells their story.

Buck is living the good life in the soft South, when he is snatched and transported to the savagery of the Northland, where the Klondike gold rush has brought out rough basic instincts of survival in men - and dogs. He adjusts to the gruelling regime of a sled dog, which almost kills him, but he survives to find a new and fulfilling way of life. The Call of the Wild is not only a classic 'ripping yarn', but also an enduring masterpiece of the inescapable laws of nature.

What would you do if your best friend was:

Imaginary?

An oversize blue chimp in surfer shorts? (Potentially embarrassing, but hey, no one else can see him...right?)

Proposing a plan to help you improve your life?

Did we say imaginary?

Driving you crazy?!?!

Now you have an idea of what Willie Ryan's life is like when he meets Dodger. It's the beginning of a lot of trouble - and a friendship you'll never forget!

Rad de La'rel is a street urchin who yearns to be a guide to adventurers in the rift caves of Quentaris. But before he can claim his birthright, he must escape the Thieves' Guild and the notorious Vindon Nibhelline with the help of his friend Tulcia. Only then will he be proclaimed the greatest guide since his ancestor, the legendary Nathine de La'rel.

Van notices the small trinkets people drop, or lose, or throw away - that’s why his collection is full of treasures. Then one day, Van notices a girl stealing pennies from a fountain, and everything changes. He follows the girl, Pebble, and uncovers an underground world full of wishes and the people who collect them. Apparently, not all wishes are good, and even good wishes often have unintended consequences. The Collectors have made it their duty to protect us. But they aren't the only ones who have their eyes on the world’s wishes - and they may not be the good guys, after all.

The stories Hannah Gale’s father told her of breaking wild horses in Nevada one glorious summer when he was her age have captured her imagination. After her dad is called to fight in Iraq, she regularly stops to watch the horses at the nearby stable to feel closer to him, and finally gathers the nerve to ask the owner for a job. There she helps bring a rescued mare back from the brink, takes her first riding lesson, and witnesses the birth of the filly who steals her heart.

It’s a life-altering New Year for 13-year-old Lydia when she uproots to a Connecticut farm to live with her aunt following her mother’s death. Aunt Brat and her jovial wife, Eileen, and their ancient live-in landlord, Elloroy, are welcoming - and a little quirky. Lydia’s struggle for a sense of belonging in her new family is highlighted when the women adopt a big yellow dog just days after the girl’s arrival.

Amy er med sin søster i Australien, og hun savner sit hjem på Heartland, en farm med speciale i helbredelse af heste. De besøger deres far, men Amy har svært ved at falde til i sin nye familie. Hun opholder sig mest i staldene opslugt af at arbejde med et par heste, der har brug for hendes hjælp. Gradvist går det dog op for hende, at hun har stærkt brug for at lære noget om at knytte bånd til mennesker. Bag forfatternavnet Lauren Brooke gemmer sig to britiske forfattere, Linda Chapman og Beth Chambers. En dyrebar gave er en del af deres serie Heartland.

Madeline and her best friend, Larue, sneak out at midnight to find out why the dogs cry all night and discover the dog fight in progress. Madeline intervenes, trying to save the dogs, but is chased from the farm with the dogs still in danger. Madeline and her father report the crime to the sheriff of their small Arkansas town, only to find the sheriff is in cahoots with Percival. The Humane Society calls in the State Police.

It's the summer before eighth grade and Flor is stuck at home and working at her family's mattress store, while her best friend goes off to band camp (probably to make new friends). It becomes even worse when she's asked to compete in the local honey pageant. This means Flor has to spend the summer practicing her talent (recorder) and volunteering (helping a recluse bee-keeper) with Candice, her former friend who's still bitter about losing the pageant crown to Flor when they were in second grade. And she can't say no.

Kann Feuer den DonnerClan retten, wie es die alte Prophezeiung sagt? Oder wird es ihn vernichten? Feuerherz hat es geschafft! Der junge Krieger ist der neue Zweite Anführer des DonnerClans. Nicht alle Katzen trauen dem ehemaligen 'Hauskätzchen' diese Aufgabe zu. Doch dann trifft eine Katastrophe den DonnerClan und plötzlich geht es nur noch ums nackte Überleben. Wird es Feuerherz gelingen, seinen verstörten Clan in ein neues Leben zu führen?

Die Treue zum eigenen Clan steht an erster Stelle im Überlebenskampf der Katzen. Doch Feuerherz ahnt: Es gibt einen Verräter! Die Treue zum eigenen Clan steht für die Katzen des Waldes an erster Stelle. Doch gilt das wirklich für alle? Der junge Krieger Feuerherz ist beunruhigt: Einige Katzen des DonnerClans verhalten sich sehr rätselhaft. Er geht der Sache auf den Grund und kommt einem gefährlichen Geheimnis auf die Spur.

"Alte Geheimnisse können nicht auf ewig vergraben bleiben." Die Wahrheit über die Herkunft von Häherpfote, Distelblatt und Löwenglut hat schreckliche Folgen: Nicht nur die drei Geschwister ringen mit ihrem neuen Wissen, der ganze DonnerClan ist erschüttert. Während der Wald in der Blattleere erstarrt, wenden sich Clan-Gefährten plötzlich voller Misstrauen gegeneinander. Die Geschwister sind verzweifelt: Kann sich die Prophezeiung von der Macht der drei überhaupt noch erfüllen oder ist dies das Ende ihres Clans?

"Aus vieren werden zwei. Löwe und Tiger begegnen sich im Kampf und Blut wird den Wald regieren." Mit diesen Worten gibt der SternenClan Feuerherz ein dunkles Rätsel auf. Was bedeutet die Prophezeiung? Feuerherz befürchtet, dass Tigerstern dahintersteckt. Steht nun der finale Kampf gegen seinen größten Feind bevor? Zu spät merkt er, dass sich das Verhängnis von ganz anderer Seite eingeschlichen hat: Teuflische Gäste haben den Wald für sich entdeckt.

The Compton Cowboys are a group who grew up in the city where Kendrick Lamar and Serena Williams were raised; a city portrayed in the media as ground zero for gang violence. But in 1988, with the creation of the Compton Junior Posse, a youth program set on a horse ranch in the middle of Compton, these men and women found a safe space.

We see a bright blue cloud-filled sky. Then we are zooming down, revealing what appears to be a swirling dust funnel in a clearing, surrounded by forest. Zooming farther down we see a young boy playing near it. Finally, we see him get swallowed up into a cosmic portal. We now zoom out, farther and farther until we see a large man dressed in regal garb, he is a wizard, searching desperately through a forest for his son. As he penetrates the trees he sees an ominous portal in the open field. A shoe lies on the ground near the swirling mass. He charges forward.