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1) Animal farm
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Series
Language
English
Description
A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible. When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia...
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English
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Description
Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.
3) Zoo
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
As coordinated attacks by animals against humans increase and escalate, young biologist Jackson Oz and ecologist Chloe Tousignant warn world leaders that soon there will be nowhere left for humans.
5) Switchers
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
When freakish weather grips the Arctic regions and moves southward, an Irish girl and her strange companion save the world from disaster through their ability to switch into animal forms.
6) Wildside
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Charlie's uncle leaves him a ranch that holds a secret door that leads into another world untouched by civilization where saber-toothed tigers and mammoths still roam, but when Charlie sells some extinct birds to finance his exploration of the wilderness, he raises questions that some people will kill to have answered.
Author
Publisher
Warner
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
After being asked to raise Umber, a bonobo chimpanzee, in his home as part of an experiment to discover the differences in learning patterns between humans and chimps, Dr Jim Dutton, an anthropology professor, begins to suspect that his primate pupil has been genetically altered.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When her veterinarian father dies, sixteen-year-old Iris Wight must move from Maine to North Carolina where her Aunt Sue spends Iris's small inheritance while abusing her physically and emotionally, but the hardest to take is her mistreatment of the farm animals.
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