Books for Animal Lovers: Teen Version!

Updated April 24, 2025
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Beastly brains : exploring how animals talk, think, and feel
Castaldo, Nancy F.
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 land
Raiku, Makoto
Paper Book
In a world of animals where the strong eat the weak, Monoko the tanuki stumbles across a strange creature the likes of which has never been seen before- a human baby! While the newborn has no claws or teeth to protect itself, it does have the rare ability to speak to and understand all the different...
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
A summer adventure you'll never forget, from a beloved Newbery Honor winning author! Dad and Ben haven't been getting along lately, and Dad hopes a road trip to rescue a border collie will help them reconnect. But Ben is on to Dad's scheme, and he's got ideas of his own. Like...
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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