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1) Oliver
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Oliver the elephant looks elsewhere for employment after learning that the circus already has enough elephants.
Author
Series
Elephant and Piggie books volume 9
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Gerald the elephant is certain that he cannot dance but his friend Piggie convinces him to try.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Inspired by the true story of a captive silverback gorilla known as Ivan, this novel celebrates the transformative power of unexpected friendships. Having spent twenty-seven years behind the glass walls of his enclosure in a shopping mall, Ivan has grown accustomed to humans watching him. He hardly ever thinks about his life in the jungle. Instead, Ivan occupies himself with television, his friends Stella and Bob, and painting. But when he meets Ruby,...
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English
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"Enchanting . . . a strange tour of late eighteenth-century England, a natural history of elephants and the story of a most unusual friendship." —The Washington Post
A poignant and magical story set in eighteenth-century England, The Elephant Keeper by Christopher Nicholson is the tale of two baby elephants and the young man who accidentally finds himself their guardian. Every reader who was enchanted by Sara Gruen's Water...
A poignant and magical story set in eighteenth-century England, The Elephant Keeper by Christopher Nicholson is the tale of two baby elephants and the young man who accidentally finds himself their guardian. Every reader who was enchanted by Sara Gruen's Water...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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An orphaned baby elephant goes to live in the city with an old lady who gives him everything he wants, but eventually returns to the forest where he is crowned king of the elephants.
Author
Series
Neelie Sterling novels volume 1
Language
English
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The way to a cheating man's heart is through . . . an elephant?
Professional horse trainer Neelie Sterling somehow missed the fact that her veterinarian husband, Matt, was having an affair with his blonde, pretty business partner. Neelie often misses things. (When Matt originally told her he was getting a colleague to help with the practice, she thought he said collie-and Neelie likes dogs.) Now the blonde is saying she's pregnant, and Neelie's...
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Language
English
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"The Elephant of Belfast chronicles a seven-month period of time when the Germans unexpectedly bombed Belfast, Northern Ireland, also known as the Belfast Blitz. Through the lens of the Bellevue Zoo and one of its zookeepers, twenty-year-old Hettie Quin, the novel animates how the war irrevocably impacted-and shaped the lives of Belfast's citizens in broad and intimate ways. In October 1940, Hettie meets Violet, a three-year-old Asian elephant arriving...
11) Where's Ellie?
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Language
English
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"Young readers will love searching for Ellie the elephant among familiar colorful objects-and finding something else instead."--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Neelie Sterling novels volume 2
Language
English
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From the author of Still Life with Elephant comes the story of one woman and her quest to save a majestic animal.
After a year spent caring for baby elephants in Africa, Neelie Sterling is preparing to return to the States and a life filled with exes-ex-boyfriend, ex-husband, ex-house, ex-horse. But she is leaving behind some unfinished business in Zimbabwe: a very special elephant targeted for execution. With the help of her new friend Diamond-Rose...
13) Uncle Elephant
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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From the Newbery and Caldecott Honor award-winning author of the Frog and Toad books, "a warming relationship . . . that invites dwelling on, and re-reading." (Kirkus Reviews)
While his mother and father are away, a little elephant goes to visit his uncle. And what a time they have! Uncle Elephant makes wishes come true, tells amazing stories, and trumpets the dawn. The visit is perfect, except for one thing-it ends much too soon.
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Series
Monkey with a tool belt series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
When Chico the monkey wakes up to a loud clatter, he puts on his tool belt and searches his tree house to find what is making the noise, only to discover Clark the elephant stuck in the laundry chute.
Author
Series
Monkey with a tool belt series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chico the clever monkey helps his friend Clark the elephant solve a problem at a seaside resort.
Author
Series
Elephant and Piggie books volume 6
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Best friends Elephant and Piggie decide that they will try to surprise each other, with unexpected results.
Author
Series
Elephant and Piggie books volume 4
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
19) Ghost boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Unhappy in a home seemingly devoid of love, a fourteen-year-old albino boy who thinks of himself as Harold the Ghost runs away to join the circus, where he works with the elephants and searches for a sense of who he is.