Animal For Teens

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.

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.

This swoonworthy, romantic companion novel to Wendy Higgins's New York Times bestselling Sweet Evil series is told from irresistible bad-boy Kaidan's point of view. Readers will love getting inside Kaidan's head, especially fans of the Divergent series by Veronica Roth, the Selection series by...

Tras el destierro de Garra de Tigre, el Clan del Trueno vive un tiempo de relativa paz y concordia, aunque la traición del antiguo lugarteniente ha supuesto un duro golpe para Estrella Azul. Por este motivo, Corazón de Fuego ha de ocuparse del día a día del clan, además de supervisar a Nimbo, su problemático aprendiz respondón y nada disciplinado.

Sheils is very pleased with her perfectly controlled life (controlling others while she's at it). She's smart, powerful, the student body chair, and she even has a loving boyfriend. What more could a girl ask for? But everything changes when the first-ever interspecies transfer student, a pterodactyl named Pyke, enrolls at her school. There's something about him - something primal - that causes the students to lose control whenever he's around.

A thrilling new adventure series for children: what would the world look like if dinosaurs had never died out? Imagine a world where dinosaurs have survived and evolved as...supersaurs! This is the world that Bea Kingsley lives in, a world where humans live side by side with supersaurs, sometimes in peace but often in conflict. Bea is the daughter of explorer parents who went missing when she was just a baby.

In einer Nacht voller Unwetter wird im FlussClan ein Junges geboren, dem ein tragisches und glorreiches Schicksal zugleich widerfahren wird. Als Sturmjunges im Fluss um sein Überleben kämpft, erscheint ihm die geheimnisvolle Katze das erste Mal. "Deine Zeit ist noch nicht gekommen. Du hast eine große Bestimmung vor dir", weissagt sie ihm. Die Katze stellt allerdings auch eine Bedingung: Sturmjunges kompromisslose und lebenslange Treue zu seinem Clan. Sturmjunges willigt arglos ein.

"Du bist Feuer und du wirst durch den Wald lodern!" In einer Zeit der schweren Unruhen wird im DonnerClan ein Junges geboren, dem eine große Zukunft vorbestimmt ist. Zunächst warten harte Prüfungen auf die junge Blaupfote. Auf ihrem Weg zur Kriegerin und schließlich zur Anführerin des DonnerClans muss die Kätzin Opfer bringen, die ihr Leben für immer verändern werden. Als Anführerin brennt Blaustern für ihren Clan wie keine andere. Doch es gibt etwas, das ihr Feuer auslöschen und schreckliches Unheil über den Clan bringen könnte.

"Die neue Blattfrische wird kommen, aber sie wird noch größere Stürme bringen als die vergangenen. Der WolkenClan wird tiefere Wurzeln brauchen, wenn er überleben soll." Sechs Monde sind vergangen seit Blattstern Anführerin des wiedervereinigten WolkenClans wurde. Die Kätzin würde alles tun, damit ihr Clan für immer bestehen kann. Doch der jungen Anführerin stehen schwere Prüfungen bevor: Im Clan gibt es unterschiedliche Auffassungen über das Zusammenleben und das Gesetz der Krieger.

Against the backdrop of the high-stakes and intensely competitive equestrian sport of show jumping, Finny, a fifteen-year-old girl in California, adopts an emaciated, untrained horse without her parents' knowledge. Soon after adopting Sky, Finny meets Joe, a sixteen-year-old, who has run away from his cruel uncle in Montana.

After their escape from Norveg, Agatha and Jaime return with their clan to the Isle of Skye to find that their enclave is now in the hands of the treacherous people of Raasay. They find tenuous shelter with another clan, but disaster soon strikes when the terrifying shadow creatures known as sgàilean escape their magical prison and wreak havoc across the island. Now Agatha and Jaime must call on old and new allies to fight this threat.

In Beastly Brains, Nancy 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 revolutionizing old theories and uncovering surprising similarities to our own minds. Humans are not alone in our ability to think.

Marshall’s had quite an interesting day so far. Instead of waking up in his regular, teenage body, he’s found himself covered in fur and five sizes too small. After a bit of investigating, it’s become clear that something is terrible wrong. Now, thanks to a particularly nasty curse, he’ll have to help seven different dogs with their problems if he ever wants to become human again.

Twelve-year-old Jessie is in for a long summer at her aunt and uncle’s house. Her cousin Ann has a snotty new best friend, which leaves Jessie all alone. But Jessie is industrious, and - not content with being ignored all summer - she convinces Wes, a grouchy neighborhood dog walker, to take her on as his apprentice. Sure, dog walking turns out to be harder than she expected, but she has Wes’s dog-walking code, the Rules of the Ruff, to guide her, and soon she’s wrangling her very own pack.

Cubs Stellan and Jytte survived their treacherous trek across the Nunquivik, but their quest to rescue their mother has only begun. Svenna is imprisoned at the sinister Ice Clock - the headquarters of the Grand Patek whose dangerous influence is spreading throughout the bear kingdom. Only one bear has ever stood up to the Grand Patek - Svern, the cubs' father, a famous warrior who's been in exile for years. And so, along with their friend Third, the cubs set out to find Svern in the legendary Den of Forever Frost - a place some bears claim never existed at all.

Die graue Kätzin hob den Kopf. "Ich habe gesehen, was geschehen wird", brummte sie. "Finstere Zeiten stehen bevor." Endlich, nach langer Reise, haben die Katzen des Waldes einen Ort entdeckt, an dem sie bleiben könnten! Rund um den großen See gibt es genug Beute und Land für alle. Die Zeit des Abschieds für die große Reisegemeinschaft scheint gekommen. Jeder Clan muss nun wieder allein für sich selbst und das eigene Überleben kämpfen. Aber ist dies auch wirklich das Ziel ihrer Reise, die neue Heimat?

"Der Stamm der ewigen Jagd hat versprochen, dass eine Katze kommen wird. Eine silberne Katze aus einem fernen Stamm, die uns von Scharfzahn befreien wird." Die auserwählten Katzen haben erfahren, welches Unheil den WaldClans bevorsteht. Jetzt wollen sie auf schnellstem Weg nach Hause. Doch im Gebirge hält sie ein unheimlicher Katzen-Stamm auf und bringt sie in große Bedrängnis. Währenddessen spitzt sich die Lage in der Heimat dramatisch zu: Die Zweibeiner dringen immer tiefer in den Wald ein und verjagen alle Beute. Ein Krieg zwischen den Clans scheint unausweichlich.

Raised in the island world of southeast Alaska, 16-year-old Robbie Daniels jumps at the chance to work as a deckhand on a salmon troller captained by legendary fisherman Tor Torsen. Catching king salmon from dawn till dusk, Robbie is living his dream - until he discovers his mysterious captain's dark secret. Tor is illegally searching the coastline for historic metal plaques buried by early Russian explorers. When Robbie learns the value of these hidden treasures, he fears he may know too much to survive.

Ned Wallis knows he's forbidden to touch the rifle in the attic. But he can't resist sneaking it out of the house just once. Before he realizes it, Ned takes a shot at a dark shadow. When Ned returns home, he's sure he sees a face looking down at him from the attic window. Who has seen and heard him? Ned's feelings of guilt and fear only get worse when one day, while helping an elderly neighbor, he spots a wild cat with one eye missing. Could this be the thing Ned shot at that night?

Despite running his own zoo, Zak Bates considers himself pretty normal for a 13-year-old. Visited by Ra-Kit, a scruffy feline with some serious catnip issues, he’s ill-prepared for the life-or-death assignment that follows. With the weight of the world on his shoulders, Zak must represent the animal kingdom at a United Nations Conference on Global Warming, convince world government to stop poisoning the planet, broker interspecies peace, and diffuse an impending, bloody rebellion - just a bit harder than algebra!