Animal For Teens

A bull shark in the swamp? No one in the Louisiana town of St. Roch believes it at first, but when a local boy has a face-to-face encounter with the toothy monster, every big fisherman is called out for the hunt. There's a big cash bounty on the shark. Sharp-eyed Birdie Gaux and her handsome dog, Bowser, can't help noticing that shark fever is causing some shady doings in town. For instance, where is Snoozy, the clerk who works at the Gaux family fishing store?

Before he became an archmage to topple an empire, before he met the legendary Eradicator Xal, Saghir was born a free ratkin, living on the streets of Gateway, a perilous desert city at the edge of the Blasted Lands. Each month, the free laborers must pay their tithe in coin, or blood. Every ratkin in Saghir's tribe searches for something of value, lest their whole people be enslaved. Ruthless Corax, carnivorous scarabs, and worse infest the city. There are countless ways for a rat to die, and all it takes is one mistake. There are no second chances.

For many generations, Fin's family has been growing potatoes with a "secret" ingredient. That secret was discovered long ago when a farmer found a dragon's favorite place to produce what was discovered to be the best thing to make potatoes grow. Years later, Fin finds out that these potatoes come with side effects, but not until after he leaves home and realizes that he could really use a little dragon magic to get him out of his predicament.

A magical beanstalk leads to a giant surprise in book four of Ursula Vernon's critically acclaimed Hamster Princess series. Harriet Hamsterbone doesn't go looking for trouble. Somehow it always finds her. So she isn't completely shocked when a salesman attempts to sell her some magic beans, or when one of those beans grows into a towering beanstalk leading up into the clouds. But even Harriet is surprised to find a giant castle - complete with one very poetically challenged giant - at the top of it.

Newbery Award-winning author Jean Craighead George is beloved for her classic tales about wildlife, such as My Side of the Mountain. When Charlie learns about the Native American belief that ravens can cure sickness, he brings home a nestling to help his ill grandfather. Together Charlie and Granddad care for the bird and learn valuable lessons about life and death, responsibility, and protecting nature.

Each year along the Eastern seacoast, the wild ponies of Assateague Island are driven across a narrow strip of ocean to Chincoteague. There the shaggy, untamed ponies are sold. When young Paul and Maureen Beebe rescue a drowning newborn foal, they take her home to nearby Pony Farm. Now the foal has grown into their free-spirited pony, Misty, and has been the subject of a popular children's book.

If you’ve ever felt unsure about what comes next, university, work, apprenticeships, or something else entirely, this book is your guide to figuring it out with curiosity, confidence and clarity. Whether you're a student facing these choices yourself or a parent looking to support someone through them, this book offers the tools and language to help navigate the journey together. This practical, story-driven guide helps you navigate life after school through two powerful perspectives, the Octopus, who learns by doing, and the Chameleon, who learns by observing.

Es ist ein ganz normaler Sommer. Die Ferien haben gerade erst begonnen. Alina lädt ihre besten Freundinnen zu sich ein, Abkühlen im Pool und Übernachtungsparty... aber es kommt alles anders als geplant. Zufällig finden die Mädchen ein Portal. Doch was ist dahinter? Etwas Gutes oder doch etwas Böses...

The year is 2044. Massive storms and rising sea levels have threatened the continued survival of humanity. It’s been two years since fourteen-year-old Samantha encountered Charlie, a member of a race of intelligent octopuses. When poachers capture Charlie, Samantha must fight to save her friend and maintain the fragile alliance they have built between their species.

A fun and flirty contemporary YA novel between a cat café barista and a boy band pop star that hits all the right notes! The Music of Us is a laugh-out-loud friends-to-more romance perfect for fans of Kasie West, Beth Reekles, and Lynn Painter. If life came with a playlist, Lucy's current era...

Billie has lived with her great-aunt ever since her mom passed away and her dad left. Billie's big brother, Leo, is about to leave, too, for the warfront. But first, she gets one more weekend with him at the ranch. Billie's surprised when Leo brings home a fellow Marine from boot camp, Denny. She has so much to ask Leo - about losing her best friend and trying to find their father - but Denny, who is Navajo, or Diné, comes with something special: a gorgeous, but injured, stray dog. As Billie cares for the dog, whom they name Bear, she and Bear grow deeply attached to each other.

In this dynamic account, award-winning author Paul Fleischman arms teens with the basic tools to uncover vested interests and falsehoods by vetting sources, following the money, and checking references so that they can make informed decisions about what actions to take in the worldwide battle against climate change, overconsumption, and dwindling resources.

Mission: nearly impossible. As the Head of Ranch Security, Hank the Cowdog has seen his share of tough weather. So when a raging, swirling blizzard shuts down the ranch and Hank is stranded out at Slim's cabin, he isn't fazed one bit. At least, not until a phone call from the ranch house brings an emergency directive.

All eighteen-year-old Carter wants is to distance himself from his daunting family legacy and lead a normal life. Unfortunately that’s hard to do when your mom is half alien and your uncle is an interplanetary war hero (or more likely a war criminal). Normalcy gets even harder for Carter when his parents are kidnapped to the mystical planet Venus, and he must reluctantly join his formidable uncle to save them. Carter finds out all too quickly that time is short, dragons tend to complicate things, and no one is truly what they seem.

Humans have despoiled Come Along Slough's habitat, endangering the survival of the animals who live there. Food is scarce. In an effort to fight chronic hunger, a shaky alliance of carnivores and herbivores creates a governmental body called the United Slough of Animals. The USA imposes strict eating quotas, but Coyote and Elrod the Stoat are shameless scofflaws and don't want Big Government meddling with their natural right to eat their fill of Rabbits.

When 11-year-old Jack Martel crawls out of his pup tent on the first morning of his camping trip with his mom in Acadia National Park, he notices right away that something isn’t right. Where is his mom’s tent, and their rental car? And where is his mom? Any other kid might panic, might even go to the police. But Jack isn’t like other kids. And his mom isn’t like other moms. Jack knows that it’s up to him to find his mom before someone figures out what’s happened and separates them forever.

When sixteen-year-old Searcher Matthews arrives at Louba Island Academy, he’s just trying to stay out of trouble. But strange creatures stalk the jungle, ancient energies stir beneath the earth, and something is waking at the heart of Earth.

Grace Delaney and her fellow dance students are en route to perform on a South Pacific cruise ship when a freak storm hits and they find themselves stranded on a seemingly deserted island. With the tropical heat rising, passions and tensions swell to breaking point. And the island itself is quietly steaming with a terrible secret....

Every mouse knows of the dangers in the sewers, where bloodthirsty gangs of rats roam. But one curious mouse can't resist that perilous world and thus must face evil at its strongest - or the entire city of London could be destroyed.

"Full of compelling twists and high-stakes magic . . . a captivating romantic fantasy that had me rooting for the protagonists from the very first page." —Kelly Andrew, New York Times-bestselling author of Your Blood, My Bones on The Beasts We Bury Marry her enemy. Save her realm. Forsake her...