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...
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 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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