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"[F]ans of animal mysteries will find plenty to keep them entertained here." -Booklist
When Pru Marlowe takes a dog for a walk, she doesn't expect to find a body. But Spot, a service dog in training, has too good a nose not to lead her to the mangled body of a young woman. Despite her own best instincts, Pru can't avoid getting involved.
The young woman seems to have been mauled by a wild cat-and Pru knows there have been no pumas in the Berkshire...
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Rotten School volume 15
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IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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As the annual I. B. Rotten Competition approaches, the school's egotistical schemer, Bernie Bridges, fears that his pet parrot, Lippy, is no longer a good luck charm.
4) The loop
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Lyman, a thirty-year-old orphan, is sipping coffee on the front steps of the trailer he calls home one morning, when a ninety-year-old parrot arrives with a mysterious past and beakful of cryptic sayings -- such as "That which hath wings shall tell the matter." Convinced that heeding the bird's wisdom will lead him to answers about himself he so desperately seeks, Lyman combines his night job as a courtesy patrolman, circling the highway that loops...
6) Time to fly
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Vet volunteers volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
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Just when Zoe is starting to feel at home in Ambler, Pennsylvania, living with her veterinarian grandmother and learning about a flock of wild parrots, her actress mother arrives to take her to a new home in Los Angeles.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Mia is not sure what to think when her Abuela comes to live with her family in the city. They share a bedroom but speak different languages and Abuela is sad about leaving her sunny house with wild parrots in mango trees. How Mia and Abuela develop their relationship while learning to communicate makes for a richly-told, uplifting story that lovingly blends generations and cultures.
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"Kay Powell, theatrical agent to non-human animals, is babysitting--that is, birdsitting--her client, a parrot named Barney, on the set of his new TV show, Dead City. When the show's charismatic star is shot in his trailer between scenes, the only eyewitness to the crime is--you guessed it--Barney. And even though Kay keeps explaining that even a "talking" parrot doesn't actually converse with people, the investigators insist on interrogating the...
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Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Perico is a Spanish-speaking parrot who lives in a pet store, and although he works very hard to earn a new home, buyers keep returning him until the bird, now bilingual, finds the perfect owner. Includes Spanish glossary and pronunciation guide.
15) Let me help!
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Children's Book Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A pet parrot tries to help his human family prepare for the Cinco de Mayo festivities in San Antonio, Texas.
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Ruby Valentine volume 3
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Carolrhoda Books
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2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Ruby's pets compete for her affection on Valentine's Day.
18) Terrific
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Nothing seems to go right for Eugene, even when he wins a free trip to Bermuda, but while he is stranded on a tiny, deserted island after being shipwrecked, a broken-winged parrot tells him how to build a boat so that they can both be rescued.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Grumpy Gus is one pirate that complains about everything, even about seeking treasure, an attitude that annoys his fellow pirates--so the Pirate Queen gives Gus an equally grumpy parrot in hopes that it will teach Gus a lesson and make him change his grumpy ways.