 | Animal Fiction for Grades 6-8 |
| These animal stories can be found in Youth (Y) Fiction, filed alphabetically under the author's name. Some are realistic (the animals act like real animals), and others are fantastic (the animals act more like people). If you are not sure which is which, please ask a librarian!
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| Ackerman | Spirit Horse |
| Adams | Watership Down |
| Adler | More Than a Horse |
| Armstrong | Sounder |
| Arnosky | Long Spikes |
| Avi | The Good Dog |
| Bagnold | National Velvet |
| Beckwith | The Spuddy |
| Bethancourt | The Dog Days of Arthur Cane |
| Booth | War Dog |
| Branford | Fire, Bed and Bone |
| Branford | White Wolf |
| Burnford | Bel Ria |
| Calvert | Bigger |
| Calvert | The Snowbird |
| Corcoran | Wolf at the Door |
| Eckert | Incident at Hawk's Hill |
| Ellis | Swimming with Whales |
| Gallico | The Snow Goose |
| George | Julie of the Wolves |
| George | Shark Beneath the Reef |
| George | Water Sky |
| Graham | A Boy and His Bear |
| Griffiths | Blackface Stallion |
| Hart | Shadow Horse |
| Hendry | Quest for a Kelpie |
| Hesse | The Music of Dolphins |
| Hiaasen | Hoot |
| Hobbs | Bearstone |
| Hobbs | Jackie's Wild Seattle |
| Hunter | Into the Wild |
| Hunter | Warriors, the New Prophecy (Series) |
| Jacques | Redwall (Series) |
| Kadohata | Cracker!: The Best Dog in Vietnam |
| Kamida | Night Mare |
| Karr | Exiled: Memoir of a Camel |
| Kehret | Trapped |
| Kennedy | The Boy Who Loved Alligators |
| Kjelgaard | Outlaw Red: Son of Big Red |
| Koja | Straydog |
| Leonard | A Coyote's in the House |
| Lester | The Snow Pony |
| London | The Call of the Wild |
| London | White Fang |
| Lowry | Stay!: Keeper's Story |
| Mazer | The Dog in the Freezer |
| Mikaelsen | Rescue Josh McGuire |
| Morey | Kavik the Wolf Dog |
| Morpurgo | War Horse |
| Napoli | North |
| Neville | It's Like This, Cat |
| O'Hara | My Friend Flicka |
| Oppel | Silverwing |
| Patent | Return of the Wolf |
| Paulsen | Dogsong |
| Peck | A Day No Pigs Would Die |
| Pennac | Eye of the Wolf |
| Pinkwater | Cloud Horse |
| Quintana | The Baboon King |
| Rawlings | The Yearling |
| Rawls | Summer of the Monkeys |
| Rawls | Where the Red Fern Grows |
| Reid Banks | Tiger, Tiger |
| Russell | Dogboy |
| Skurzynski | The Hunted |
| Smith | Winter-Broken |
| Steinbeck | The Red Pony |
| Talbert | The Trap |
| Taylor | Sniper |
| Wallace | Coyote Autumn |
| Wallace | Red Dog |
| Westall | Blitzcat |
| Wilson | Stray |
Last Updated: 2/08
