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All creatures great and small volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 26
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Take an unforgettable journey through the English countryside and into the homes of its inhabitants--four-legged and otherwise--with the world's best-loved animal doctor. For over 25 years, since "All Creatures Great and Small" was first published, readers have delighted to the storytelling genius of James Herriot, the Yorkshire veterinarian whose fascinating vignettes brim with the wonder of life, animal and human.
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All creatures great and small volume 5
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In stories of wonders great and small, the author reintroduces many old friends like Mrs. Pumphrey, his partner Liegfried Farnon, and his wife Helen. But there are wonderful new faces, too, expecially his children, Rosie and Jimmy, and his latest assistant, Calum Buchanan.The author offers a collection of memoirs, describing the family and friends who share his life on the Yorkshire dales.
3) Bark, George
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George (Jules Feiffer) volume 1
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
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George the puppy's mother is in for a big surprise when she takes him to the veterinarian to find out why he does not bark.
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All creatures great and small volume 3
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In the midst of World War II, the Yorkshire veterinarian muses on past adventures through the Yorkshire dales, visiting with old friends and introducing scores of new characters--both human and animal.
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All creatures great and small volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 23
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All Things Bright and Beautiful is the beloved sequel to Herriot's first collection, All Creatures Great and Small, and picks up as Herriot, now newly married, journeys among the remote hillside farms and valley towns of the Yorkshire Dales, caring for their inhabitants---both two- and four-legged. Throughout, Herriot's deep compassion, humor, and love of life shine out as we laugh, cry, and delight in his portraits of his many, varied animal patients...
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All creatures great and small volume 4
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Continues the memoirs of Yorkshire veterinarian James Herriot, as life for Herriot, his wife, and two children gets back to normal after World War II.
7) All creatures great and small: The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World's Most Beloved Animal Doctor
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All creatures great and small volume 1
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This companion to the upcoming PBS Masterpiece series and Christmas special is the first volume in a series that takes readers into the magical world of the beloved veterinarian and his menagerie of animal patients.
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Calpurnia Tate volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
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"In rural Texas in 1900, when a storm blows change into town in the form of a visiting veterinarian, twelve-year-old Callie discovers a life and a vocation she desperately wants. But with societal expectations as they are, she will need all her wits and courage to realize her dreams"--
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Eternity Springs novels volume 11
Pub. Date
2016.
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Six years ago, Chase Timberlake bought an engagement ring for his high school sweetheart Lori Reese. Then ... life happened. Chase's adventure photography career took off, Lori's dream of getting into veterinary school came true, and their happily ever after never came to pass. When Chase's jet-setting life takes a tragic turn, he returns to Eternity Springs a damaged man ... Long summer days spent together rekindles the love that never died and Chase...
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Bad Kitty (Chapter books) volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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When Kitty is happy and healthy, everything is perfect. But when she's sick, all she can do is lie in her bed. Looks like it's time for this sick kitty to go... to the vet. When Kitty's family finally manages to get their clawing, angry pet into the doctor's office, it's a wild adventure for Kitty who has to get the most dreaded thing of all...a shot.
11) Altar of Eden
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Following the fall of Baghdad, two Iraqi boys stumble upon armed men looting the city zoo. The floodgates have been opened for the smuggling of hundreds of exotic birds, mammals, and reptiles to Western nations, but this crime hides a deeper secret. Amid a hail of bullets, a concealed underground weapons lab is ransacked and something even more horrific is set free. Seven years later, Louisiana state veterinarian Lorna Polk stumbles upon a fishing...
14) Fifty-four pigs
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Pub. Date
2022.
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"A swine barn explodes near a lakeside Manitoba town, putting veterinarian Dr. Peter Bannerman on a collision course with murder and a startling conspiracy. Peter is an odd duck, obsessed with logic and measurable facts, an obsession he puts to good use in his veterinary practice. When a murder is connected to the swine barn explosion and his friend Tom becomes the prime suspect, Peter feels compelled to put his reasoning skills, and his dog Pippin's...
15) Dark summer
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Devon Brady is a devoted veterinarian working in a makeshift hospital at an island search-and-rescue site. When Jude Marrok arrives with his wounded black lab Ned, Devon has no idea that she is about to be plunged into a whirlwind of terror, destruction, and unstoppable passion.
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Christmas Tree Ranch volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Veterinarian J.T. "Rush" Rushford isn't looking forward to Christmas. It'll be his first without his beloved four-year-old daughter, Claire. A year ago, Rush's wife divorced him for another man -- then broke his heart further by revealing that Claire was her lover's child. The final blow was Rush losing all parental rights. Now he's in Branding Iron, Texas, with his mobile vet practice, just hoping to get through the season -- until something like...
18) While I was gone
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
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A woman who has everything going for her gives in to adultery. The heroine is Jo Becker of Massachusetts, a well-off veterinarian with grown children and a husband she loves. One day she meets a man from her past and it happens. The novel analyzes why.
19) Breathless
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 13
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In the stillness of a golden September afternoon, deep in the wilderness of the Rockies, a solitary craftsman, Grady Adams, and his magnificent Irish wolfhound Merlin step from shadow into lightand into an encounter with enchantment. That night, through the trees, under the moon, a pair of singular animals will watch Grady's isolated home, waiting to make their approach. A few miles away, Camillia Rivers, a local veterinarian, begins to unravel...