Books for Animal Lovers: Teen Version!

Updated April 24, 2025
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Beastly brains exploring how animals think, talk, and feel
Castaldo, Nancy F. (Nancy Fusco), 1962- author.
Paper Book
In Beastly Brains, Castaldo delves into the minds of animals and explores animal empathy, communication, tool use, and social societies through interviews and historical anecdotes. Researchers from Charles Darwin to Jane Goodall have spent years analyzing the minds of animals, and today's science is...
Animal kind lessons on love, fear and friendship from the animals in our lives
Lock, Emma
Paper Book
Stories of Animal Companionship and the Wonders of Animal Therapy #1 New Release in Teen & Young Adult Animals, Zoology, and Special Needs Issues Animal Kind offers true animal therapy stories that prove that sometimes the best friends in life have fur,...
Children of the sea
Igarashi, Daisuke.
Paper Book
When Ruka was younger, she saw a ghost in the water at the aquarium where her dad works. Now she feels drawn toward the aquarium and the two mysterious boys she meets there, Umi and Sora. They were raised by dugongs and hear the same strange calls from the sea as she does. Ruka's dad...
Road trip
Paulsen, Jim.
Paper Book
Dad and Ben haven't been getting along recently and Dad hopes a road trip to rescue a border collie will help them reconnect. But Ben is on to Dad's plan and invites  Ben's thuggish buddy, Theo. The family dog, Atticus, comes along too and the story is told by Ben and Atticus. When their truck...
Fruits basket
Takaya, Natsuki, 1973- author, artist.
Paper Book
After a family tragedy turns her life upside down, plucky high schooler Tohru Honda takes matters into her own hands and moves out...into a tent! Unfortunately for her, she pitches her new home on private land belonging to the mysterious Sohma clan, and it isn't long before the owners discover her...
This book is cruelty free animals and us
Newbery, Linda
Paper Book
If you've ever wondered how you can make your diet cruelty-free, whether it's ethical to own a pet, or if insects are actually important - this book is for you. Learn how to make the right choices to live a cruelty-free life and demystify the morals and ethics around animals and wildlife.
This strange wilderness the life and art of John James Audubon
Plain, Nancy.
Paper Book
Birds were "the objects of my greatest delight," wrote John James Audubon (1785-1851), founder of modern ornithology and one of the world's greatest bird painters. His masterpiece, The Birds of America depicts almost five hundred North American bird species, each image--lifelike and...

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