Books for Animal Lovers: Teen Version!

Updated April 25, 2024
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Rainbow and black
Takenashi, Eri, author, artist.
Paper Book
A charming slice-of-life manga about a girl and the strange creature in her home. Shirahoshi Kuroe is a college student who's tired of living in black and white-then an adorably strange creature brings all the colors of the rainbow into her life. Kuroe must learn what exactly this strange...
Rainbow Bridge
Orlando, Steve (Comic book writer), author, creator.
Paper Book
RAINBOW BRIDGE is an original graphic novel from Steve Foxe and SteveOrlando - the first to be published under AfterShock's new YA imprint: SEISMICPRESS. What if the Rainbow Bridge was the Bifrost? ANDY's parentsrescued ROCKET when Andy was just a toddler, and they...
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...
Behind the scenes at the zoo your all-access guide to the world's greatest zoos and aquariums
Davies, Ben Ffrancon
Paper Book
Step inside the weird and wonderful world of zoos, where all four corners of our planet come together.   We're opening the gates, just for you! Join us on an epic behind-the-scenes adventure of zoos and aquariums. From tigers and tortoises to giraffes and jellyfish, you'll...
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...
Navy SEAL dogs my tale of training canines for combat
Ritland, Mike.
Paper Book
Before there was Max, there was Mike. A true story much like the touching movie, Navy SEAL Dogs explores the incomparable relationship between trainer and military dog. From the author of Team Dog, Trident K9 Warriors gave readers an inside look at...
The call of the wild ; and, White Fang
London, Jack, 1876-1916
Paper Book
Jack London's two most beloved tales of survival in Alaska were inspired by his experiences in the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush. Both novels grippingly dramatize the harshness of the natural world and what lies beneath the thin veneer of human civilization. The canine hero of...

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