Top 10 Books Featuring Animals (Alphabetical order)
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- The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein: A heart-wrenching but deeply funny and uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, hope and absurdities of human life…as only a dog could tell it.
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- Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo: The Newbery Award-winning novel of a young girl learning life lessons alongside her loyal dog.
- Coal Black Horse by Robert Olmstead: When Robey Childs's mother has a premonition about her soldier husband during the Civil War, she does the unthinkable: she sends her only child to find his father on the battlefield and bring him home.
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- Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron and Brett Witter: An orphaned cat has a huge impact upon a library, its patrons and eventually a rural Iowa town struggling to cope in a lagging economy.
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- Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog by John Grogan: The bestselling story of a family’s everlasting bond with its pesky Labrador Retriever.
- Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived by Ralph Helfer: The intertwining lives of an elephant and a trainer born on the same day.
- Old Yeller by Fred Gipson: The classic, emotional story of a boy and his loyal dog along the Texas hill country.
- Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand: Hillenbrand examines the meteoric rise of the horse racing legend, and the unlikely team guiding the steed’s way to the top.
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- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski: This loose retelling of Hamlet centers on a mute boy and the special, mystical bond he forms with his canine companion.
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- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen: A college dropout finds himself the de facto veterinarian for a travelling circus, and entranced by the director’s wife.
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