Sept. 2025: Outdoors & Animals Stories

1) Black Beauty

Author

Sewell, Anna, 1820-1878

Series

Great illustrated classics
Scholastic classics
Classic library
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Book, Audiobook CD, Playaway, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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One of the best loved animal stories ever written, the dramatic and heartwarming Black Beauty is told by the magnificent horse himself, from his idyllic days on a country squire's estate to his harsh fate as a London cab horse. No one can ever forget the gallant Black Beauty, a horse with a white star on his forehead and a heart of unyielding courage.

2) The call of the wild

Author

London, Jack, 1876-1916

Series

Puffin classics
Scholastic classics
Classic literature
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Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, Large Print, Online Content, Playaway, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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"Life is good for Buck in Santa Clara Valley, where he spends his days eating and sleeping in the golden sunshine. But one day a treacherous act of betrayal leads to his kidnap, and he is forced into a life of toil and danger. Dragged away to be a sledge dog in the harsh and freezing cold Yukon, Buck must fight for his survivial. Can he rise above his enemies and become the master of his realm once again?"--Amazon.com.

3) The Clan of the Cave Bear: a novel

Author

Auel, Jean M

Series

Earth's Children volume 1
Earth's children (Brilliance Corporation) volume 1
Thorndike large print
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When her parents are killed by an earthquake, 5-year-old Ayla wanders through the forest completely alone. Cold, hungry, and badly injured by a cave lion, the little girl is as good as gone until she is discovered by a group who call themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear. This clan, left homeless by the same disaster, have little interest in the helpless girl who comes from the tribe they refer to as the "Others." Only their medicine woman sees in...

4) Dances with wolves

Author

Blake, Michael, 1945-2015

Series

Dances with Wolves volume 1

Formats

Book, Large Print, eAudiobook

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A story of John J. Dunbar, a young cavalry lieutenant who finds himself at the edge of the American Frontier in the year 1863.

5) Finding Gobi: a little dog with a very big heart

Author

Leonard, Dion

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

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While racing through the Gobi Desert in China and Mongolia, the author, a seasoned ultramarathoner, encounters a stray dog who, keeping pace with him for nearly 80 miles, gives him a new perspective on life, causing him to fight to bring her home with him with the help of strangers and a viral outpouring of assistance on the internet.

6) The grapes of wrath

Author

Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968

Series

Penguin classics (Sound recording)
Audio theatre collection

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, Large Print, Playaway, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath...

7) Hatchet

Author

Paulsen, Gary

Series

Hatchet volume 1
Brian's saga volume 1
Brian Robeson volume 1
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Headed for Canada to visit his father for the first time since his parents' divorce, thirteen-year-old Brian is the sole survivor of a plane crash, with only the clothes he has on and a hatchet to help him live in the wilderness.

8) Holes

Author

Sachar, Louis, 1954-

Series

Holes
Newbery Medal winner, 1999
Thorndike Press large print the literacy bridge
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As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.

9) Into the wild

Author

Hunter, Erin

Series

Warriors volume 1
Warriors: The Prophecies Begin volume 1

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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For generations, four clans of wild cats have shared the forest. When their warrior code is threatened by mysterious deaths, a house cat named Rusty may turn out to be the bravest warrior of all.

10) The island of Doctor Moreau

Author

Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946

Series

Naxos AudioBooks complete classics
Warbler Classics
First Avenue Classics ™

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eBook

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"...tells the story of the shipwrecked Edward Prendick, who finds himself rescued by the mysterious character of the title. On the island, he discovers that his saviour is a mad scientist, intent on creating human-animal hybrids and testing where the boundaries of morality lies."--Page 8.

11) Jurassic Park

Author

Crichton, Michael, 1942-2008

Series

2018 Great American Read
Jurassic Park

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, Large Print, eBook, Kindle

Summary

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Before seeing Jurassic World film this June read the original, multimillion copy number 1 bestselling thriller that inspired the first major motion picture Jurassic Park. On a remote jungle island, genetic engineers have created a dinosaur game park. An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now one of mankind's most thrilling fantasies has come true and the first dinosaurs that the Earth has seen in the...

12) Life of Pi: a novel

Author

Martel, Yann

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, Large Print, Playaway, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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"Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan,...

13) Lion boy

Author

Corder, Zizou

Series

Lion boy trilogy volume 1

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD

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In the near future, Charlie Ashanti, a boy who can speak the language of cats, sets out from London to find his kidnapped parents and finds himself on a Paris-bound circus ship learning to train lions.

14) Man vs. wild: survival techniques from the most dangerous places on Earth

Author

Grylls, Bear

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A host of the Discovery Channel's "Man vs. Wild" draws on his experiences as a former member of the British Special Forces to present an illustrated guide to strategies for surviving the elements of the world's harshest ecosystems.

15) The maze

Author

Hobbs, Will

Formats

Book, Playaway, eAudiobook

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Rick, a fourteen-year-old foster child, escapes from a juvenile detention facility near Las Vegas and travels to Canyonlands National Park in Utah where he meets a bird biologist working on a project to reintroduce condors to the wild.

16) Old Yeller

Author

Gipson, Fred, 1908-1973

Series

Old Yeller volume 1

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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A timeless American classic and one of the most beloved children's books ever written, Old Yeller is a Newbery Honor Book that explores the poignant and unforgettable bond between a boy and the stray dog who becomes his loyal friend.

17) The one and only Ivan Original

Author

Applegate, Katherine

Series

One and only Ivan volume 1

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When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life.

18) The ride of her life: the true story of a woman, her horse, and their last-chance journey across America

Author

Letts, Elizabeth

Formats

Book, Large Print, eAudiobook

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The true story of 63-year-old Maine farmer Annie Wilkins who, in 1954, rode her horse across America, fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pacific Ocean. "The incredible true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pacific Ocean, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Horse and The Eighty-Dollar Champion. In 1954, Annie Wilkins, a sixty-three-year-old farmer from...

19) Robinson Crusoe

Author

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731

Series

Robinson Crusoe volume 1
Recorded Books classics library
Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, Large Print, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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"Shipwrecked off the coast of Trinidad, Robinson Crusoe - a young man with a thirst for adventure - finds himself washed up on a remote tropical island with nothing but a few tools and animals for company. Castaway for thirty years, he must battle cannibals, mutineers and the elements in a tale so convincing that many readers at the time believed it to be non-fiction. A true page-turner, Robinson Crusoe is one of the most enduring novels in the English...

20) Rough magic: riding the world's loneliest horse race

Author

Prior-Palmer, Lara

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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"At the age of nineteen, Lara Prior-Palmer discovered a website devoted to "the world's longest, toughest horse race"--an annual competition of endurance and skill that involves dozens of riders racing a series of twenty-five wild ponies across 1,000 kilometers of Mongolian grassland. On a whim, she decided to enter the race. As she boarded a plane to East Asia, she was utterly unprepared for what awaited her. Riders often spend years preparing to...

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