Fast Five Fiction: Animals

It's FRIDAY! Which means it's time for Fast Five Fiction. Each week I'll be sharing 5 fiction books: new books, notable books, books around a common theme. This week I've got 5 fantasy books featuring animals! Click the title to be directed to the library's catalog.

Green Ember Series by S.D. Smith

The Green Ember Series features two rabbits, Heather and Picket.  They're extraordinary rabbits with ordinary lives until calamitous events overtake them, spilling into a cauldron of misadventrues. They discover that their own story is bound up in the tumult threatening to overwhelm the wider world. Kings fall and kingdoms totter. Tyrants ascend and terrors threaten. Betrayal beckons, and loyalty is a broken road with peril around every bend. Where will Heather and Picket land? How will they make their stand?

The Imaginary Veterinary Series by Suzanne Selfors

In the Imaginary Veterinary Series Ben Silverstein is sent to the rundown town of Buttonville to spend the summer with his grandfather. He's certain it will be the most boring vacation ever. That is, until his grandfather's cat brings home what looks like . . . a baby dragon?

Amazed, Ben enlists the help of Pearl Petal, a local girl with an eye for adventure. They take the wounded dragon to the only veterinarian's office in town -- Dr. Woo's Worm Hospital. But as Ben and Pearl discover once they are inside, Dr. Woo's isn't a worm hospital at all -- it's actually a secret hospital for imaginary creatures.

After Ben accidentally leaves the hospital's front door unlocked, a rather large, rather stinky, and very hairy beast escapes into Buttonville. Ben and Pearl are tasked with retrieving the runaway creature, and what started out as an ordinary summer becomes the story of a lifetime.

Suzanne Selfors delivers a wild journey filled with mythical creatures and zany adventures that are anything but imaginary. Follow Ben and Pearl's adventures working with Dr. Woo while trying to avoid know-it-all Victoria, who is constantly getting in their way. 

How to Train your Dragon series by Cressida Cowell

How to Train your Dragon chronicles a young Viking boy who goes on adventures with Toothless, his mischievous dragon. Action-packed, hilarious, and perfectly illustrated, How to Train Your Dragon is a beloved modern classic. 

In the book that started it all, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, the smallish Viking with a longish name, tries to pass the important initiation test of his Viking clan by catching and training a dragon. Can Hiccup do it without being torn limb from limb? And when a new terror threatens to devour every Viking on the Isle of Berk, can he save the tribe and become a hero?

 

Follow Hiccup, Toothless, and a cast of zany characters from book 1 all the way to book 12. If you you've only seen the movies, then you have missed out on so much of the story. The audiobook, narrated by David Tennant makes this wonderful story even more enjoyable. 

The Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins

Before she wrote The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins wrote The Underland Chronicles. When Gregor follows his little sister through a grate in the laundry room of their New York apartment building, he hurtles into the dark Underland beneath the city. There, a conflict is brewing between the humans and the giant creatures that live below. Gregor must find his place in the frightening prophecies he encounters, the strength to protect his family, and the courage to stand up against an army of giant rats.

Warriors series by Erin Hunter

Warriors is a series of novels based around the adventures and drama of several groups (Clans) of wild cats, set primarily in the fictional location of White Hart woods, and later, Sanctuary Lake. The Warriors universe centres around a large group of feral cats who initially reside in a forest, and later, around a lake after fleeing their initial home due to its destruction by humans. The cats are split into four groups called Clans: ThunderClan lives in woodland areas, WindClan resides on the moors, RiverClan by the river, and ShadowClan within and around the swamps. SkyClan, a subsequently introduced fifth group, is revealed to have been a part of this system but was forced to flee when their territory was destroyed by humans for urban development. Each Clan has adapted to their own terrain. There are enough books in this series to keep any reader busy for a long time. 

Happy Friday, and happy reading!