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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Mowgli, lost in the deep jungle as a child, is adopted into a family of wolves. Hunted by Shere Khan, the Bengal tiger, Mowgli is allowed to run with the wolf pack under the protection of Bagheera, the black panther, and of Baloo, the brown bear who teaches wolf cubs The Law of the Jungle. Through many legendary adventures, Mowgli evolves from a vengeful member of the pack to a just and compassionate human being who at last returns to join--perhaps...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a recent graduate of the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, is hired as governess to three young children who have been raised by wolves and must teach them to behave in a civilized manner quickly, in preparation for a Christmas ball.
4) The savage
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A boy tells about a story he wrote when dealing with his father's death about a savage kid living in a ruined chapel in the woods--and the tale about the savage kid coming to life in the real world.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first and best of the Tarzan novels, of which Edgar Rice Burroughs eventually wrote several dozen, Tarzan of the Apes remains one of the signature stories of American popular literature, as readable as it is famous. Tarzan himself, in the words of Arthur C. Clarke, is "the best known character in the whole of fiction." As John Taliaferro asserts in his Introduction to this Modern Library Paperback Classic, "There is no question that [Tarzan of...
6) Wild
Author
Publisher
Flying Eye Books
Language
English
Description
This debut picture book by Hawaiian author-illustrator Emily Hughes tells the story of a little girl who has known nothing but nature from birth. Bears taught her to eat, birds to speak, foxes to play; she is unabashedly, irrefutably, irrepressibly "Wild." That is, until one day she meets a new animal that looks oddly like her.
Author
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An illustrated adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs's classic story of Tarzan, that tells of his birth, death of his parents, and early life raised by Kala, the she-ape of the tribe of Kerchak.
8) Wolf-woman
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
When she is three-years-old, Tanith is taken from a den of wolves and lives for many years as the daughter of the chief of a warlike clan, until circumstances force her to choose between wolves and men.
Author
Series
Unsolved mysteries from history volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young aspiring detective narrates the known facts of an unsolved historical mystery--the discovery in a forest in India of two girls said to have been raised by wolves--and challenges the reader to come up with a solution.
11) The Unseen Guest
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Miss Penelope Lumley embarks on an investigation into the mysteries surrounding the Incorrigible children, Lord Ashton, the forests of Ashton Place, and her own past.
12) Disney's Tarzan
Publisher
Grolier Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
After being raised in the jungle by apes, Tarzan is torn between the world of humans and the only family he has ever known
14) The Jungle Book
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Imagine growing up among wolves, being friends with a panther and a bear, and hunting the most fearsome animal in the wild-the man-killing tiger Shere Khan. These are the stories of Mowgli ""the frog,"" a man-cub raised by wolves, and his journey to adulthood with the help of Baloo the bear, and Bagheera the black panther. The Jungle Book is collections of short stories. Each story begins with a few lines of poetry. The best known of these jungle...
Author
Series
Jungle book (Easy reader classics) volume 3
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A brief, simplified retelling of the episode in "The Jungle Book" during which Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves and other animals, learns that as long as he lives with his friends, they are threatened by Shere Khan and so decides to leave, accompanied by Bagheera and Baloo.
Author
Series
Jungle book (Easy reader classics) volume 1
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A brief, simplified retelling of the episode in "The Jungle Book" during which Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves and other animals, ignores the advice of his friends Bagheera and Baloo and goes off by himself in the jungle.
18) River Rats, inc
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1979
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Traveling illegally at night on the Colorado River with a mysterious cargo, two boys are shipwrecked and must depend for survival on their own ingenuity and a wild boy they find living along the river.
19) Tarzan
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Language
English
Description
A baby boy, left alone in the African jungle after the deaths of his parents, is adopted by an ape and raised to manhood without ever seeing another human being.
20) Alabama Moon
Publisher
Opal Movies [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
After the unexpected death of his survivalist father, an eleven-year-old boy raised in the Alabama wilderness must learn how to make a home in the modern world.