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Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
In parallel stories, Bone, an orphaned dog, finds and loses a series of homes, Molly, a family pet, helps Charlie through the grief and other after-effects of his brother's death, and lonely Henry pleads for a dog of his own.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Squirrel, a stray puppy, tells her life story, from her nurturing mother and brother to making her own way in the world, facing busy highways, changing seasons, and humans both gentle and brutal.
3) Chimpanzee
Series
Language
English
Description
Oscar, a baby chimpanzee, is enjoying his life with his mother in the jungles along the Ivory Coast. Without warning, young Oscar is orphaned during an attack from a rival group of chimpanzees. Afterwards, he attempts to survive on his own, and to be accepted by the other chimps. Oscar struggles until he is adopted by the alpha male of his group.
Author
Series
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
NC 660L
Language
English
Description
Documents the uplifting story of an orphaned bear cub that was discovered in the Russian wilderness and rescued by two young scientists, who then pain-stakingly raised and trained him and two companion cubs to become wild bears that could survive on their own in the forest.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Fall in love with baby koala Danny, tiny wallaby Neil, baby sloth Newbie, young kangaroo Harry, and baby fruit bat Bugsy, and with their caring foster mothers, who give so much of themselves to help these little orphans find their way back to the wild.
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
1995.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Relates the author's childhood story about an orphan raccoon that came to live with him and presents information about this intelligent, masked creature.
Author
Series
Publisher
National Geographic Kids
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
NC 690L
Language
English
Description
After losing her mother, shy Natumi is rescued by a team from the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, an orphanage for baby elephants. At the shelter, Natumi hides behind keepers' legs to watch the other elephants at the shelter. But soon, she meets several other orphans, and the eight of them play together in the surrounding bush. As the babies become closer and more like a real family, they need a leader, someone they can trust. Can Natumi grow into...
13) Fancy the fox
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
Text and photographs follow the first year in the lives of three young red foxes who are abandoned by their mother and cared for in a special shelter until they are ready to return to the wild.
15) Rickie & Henri
Author
Publisher
Minedition/Penguin
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When her human guardian goes on a business trip, Ricki, an orphaned chimpanzee infant, adopts Henri, a shaggy dog, as her "mother."
16) Taking wing
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
With his father in the Army Air Corps and his mother diagnosed with tuberculosis, thirteen-year-old Gus sets out to incubate a nest of orphaned duck eggs on his grandparents' farm in Vermont.
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