Peg Kehret
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
A moving memoir from an award-winning author. A mother cat and her kittens, shot with a pellet gun. A poacher illegally stalking a bear. Peg Kehret tells these true stories and more as she invites readers into her life on a small wildlife sanctuary. She writes about animal rescue while providing facts about the animals and birds she meets. Mrs. Kehret also shares the tragedy of her husband's sudden death, and the pain of losing Pete, the shelter cat...
4) Runaway twin
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sunny, accompanied by a stray dog, takes advantage of a monetary windfall to travel from her Nebraska foster home to Enumclaw, Washington in order to find the twin sister from whom she was separated at age three.
5) Abduction!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Thirteen-year-old Bonnie has a feeling of foreboding on the very day that her six-year-old brother Matt and their dog Pookie are abducted, and she becomes involved in a major search effort as well as a frightening adventure.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Fourteen-year-old Amy's excitement over her first babysitting job ends when she and her three-year-old charge are kidnapped, but a daily videorecording sent to little Kendra's parents allows Amy to send clues, in hopes of being rescued before the kidnappers decide they no longer need her.
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When an earthquake creates a tsunami while thirteen-year-old Kyle is babysitting his sister during a family vacation at a Pacific Coast resort, he tries to save himself, his sister, and a boy who has bullied him for years.
Author
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When an earthquake hits the isolated island in northern California where his family had been camping, twelve-year-old Jonathan Palmer must find a way to keep himself, his partially paralyzed younger sister, and their dog alive until help arrives.
10) The hideout
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Description
After his parents are killed by a crazed gunman in a Seattle mall, Jeremy is on his way to live with his Uncle Ed in Chicago when the train on which he is riding crashes in a blaze of fire. Wandering aimlessly away from the wreck, Jeremy finds a deserted cabin which appears to be just the place to hide from his problems.
11) Cages
Author
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
After losing an acting role and fighting with her alcoholic stepfather, Kit is arrested for shoplifting and ordered to work, as part of her sentence, at an animal shelter.
Author
Series
Ellen and Corey volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
While acting in a "haunted house" featuring interesting deaths in history, Ellen is contacted by the ghost of a former resident, who seems to be protecting the collection of antique Wedgwood dishes on display there.
13) Saving Lilly
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Sixth-grader Erin Wrenn is determined to save an elephant named Lilly from being sold by a circus to a hunting park.
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Sixth-grader Rusty, determined to help an injured dog that is chained outdoors in frigid weather, calls animal control, then takes matters into his own hands, aided by his best friend and a ghost collie that leads Rusty to an even deeper secret. Includes instructions for knitting cat blankets.
17) Spy cat
Author
Series
Pete the cat (Peg Kehret) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A series of burglaries in their quiet community upsets Alex's family, particularly his younger brother Benjie, but the bad guys are no match for the very protective family cat and Benjie's "spy" skills.
20) Trapped
Author
Series
Pete the cat (Peg Kehret) volume 3
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When his owner, Alex, finds an illegal animal trap in the woods, Pete the cat faces grave danger as he tries to help his human friends find the culprit who set the trap.