Bandit's tale : the muddled misadventures of a pickpocket by Hopkinson, Deborah 

BTSB Prebound(Knopf, 2016)

BTSB #: 463358 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.1 MG RC: 4.5 6-8 Lexile: 740 F&P: W

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Conduct of life - Fiction Child labor - Fiction Child abuse - Fiction Immigrants - Fiction Italians - New York (State) - New York - Fiction Animals - Treatment - Fiction New York (N.Y.) - History|y19th century - Fiction

Summary: In March of 1887, Rocco, an eleven-year-old from an Italian village, arrives in New York City where he is forced to live in squalor and beg for money as a street musician, but he finds the city's cruelty to children and animals intolerable and sets out to make things better, whatever the cost to himself.

Buddy by Joyce, William 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2017)

BTSB #: 502292 Available

Dewey: FAges: 7-9   
AR: 4.5 LG Lexile: 740

Genres: Animals Family Life

Subjects: Lintz, Gertrude - Fiction Gorillas - Fiction Human-animal relationship - Fiction Animals - Treatment - Fiction

Summary: Gertrude Lintz, a New York socialite who believes that animals should not be caged, raises a gorilla named Buddy and reluctantly realizes that he is not suited for city life. Based on a true story.

Hey, dog by Johnston, Tony 

BTSB Prebound(Charlesbridge, 2019)

BTSB #: 498052 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
AR: 2.2 LG

Genres: Animals

Subjects: Dogs - Fiction Human-animal relationship - Fiction Animals - Treatment - Fiction

Summary: A boy cares for, feeds, and helps an abused stray dog so it can learn to trust humans again.

Moon bear by Lewis, Gill 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2015)

BTSB #: 568455 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.2 MG RC: 3.3 3-5 Lexile: 590

Genres: Animals

Subjects: Asiatic black bears - Fiction Bears - Fiction Animals - Treatment - Fiction Laos - Fiction

Summary: In Laos, twelve-year-old Tam must work at a bear farm where bears are cruelly caged and milked for their bile, but when a familiar cub is brought to the farm, Tam will do anything to free both the cub, and himself.

Rescued [Ape Quartet Volume: #3]by Schrefer, Eliot 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2016)

BTSB #: 789861 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 5.8 UG RC: 5.5 6-8 Lexile: 840

Genres: Adventure Fiction Animals

Subjects: Orangutans - Fiction Wildlife rescue - Fiction Animals - Treatment - Fiction Responsibility - Fiction Indonesia - Fiction

Summary: When John was ten years old his father brought back a baby orangutan from Indonesia, and Raja quickly becomes John's "brother" and responsibility--so years later, after his parents divorce, and his father has sold Raja to a roadside zoo, John sets out to rescue him and bring him to a sanctuary in Indonesia.

Uncaged by Sandford, John 

BTSB Prebound(Knopf, 2014)

BTSB #: 776879 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 6.1 UG RC: 5.6 9-12 Lexile: 870

Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Adventure fiction Animals - Treatment - Fiction Protest movements - Fiction Siblings - Fiction Science fiction

Summary: When an animal rights action at a research lab goes wrong, a terrible secret is exposed, and Shay must find her brother Odin before the researchers at Singular Corp can silence both of them.