• Arabel's Raven by Joan Aiken
  Always hungry and often cranky, Arabel's pet raven Mortimer is even more trouble out in the city than he is at home.
• Babe the Gallant Pig by Dick King-Smith
  Yes, it's that Babe—star of the hit movie—as he first appeared, in this wacky British novel.
• The Bat Poet by Randall Jarrell
  A small bat stays awake all day, discovering things his nocturnal friends could never imagine.
• Capyboppy by Bill Peet
  In this true story for people of all ages, a giant South American rodent called a capybara takes over a family's home—and swimming pool.
• The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
  Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat, street-smart residents of a New York sewer, befriend a musical country cricket named Chester.
• Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
  Mr. Fox creates an underground world with splendid feasts as he works to outwit farmers Boggis, Bunce, and Bean.
• Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
  During her solo journey from Alaska to California, an Eskimo girl is accepted by a pack of wolves.
• Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
  This classic portrays real events on Virginia's Chincoteague Island, where every year wild horses swim from island to shore.
• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
  While trying to save her home from a farmer's plow, a field mouse encounters a colony of lab rats with humanlike intelligence.
• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
  Mole emerges from hibernation and into a series of adventures with brave Rat, reclusive Badger, and impossible Toad.

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