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Reading Challenge: Book with Animal on Cover

YPRL Staff

1 September, 2022

Small kitten sitting on stack of thin books in front of flowers and window.

Looking for a challenge? How about choosing a book by its cover. How gorgeous are some of these covers! Here are some books from a few different genres that actually have nothing to do with animals (except Life of Pi!) but are well worth a read. 

Oops, we accidently made birds dominate the animal book covers!

Everyone in my Family has Killed Someone
The Cunninghams don't really get along - they only have one thing in common.

Wild Abandon (eBook) 
A young man travels to America in search of experience and culture.

Six Crimson Cranes
Princess Shiori has forbidden magic running through her veins. Normally she conceals it well, but on this day she loses control. 

The Pull of the Stars
Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed Irish hospital where expectant mothers who have fallen sick are quarantined to keep the plague at bay.  In the intensity of this ward, over three brutal days, Julia and the women come together in unexpected ways.

The Thursday Murder Club
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, they find themselves in the middle of their first live case.

Boy Swallows Universe
All Eli wants to do is follow his heart - but life keeps throwing obstacles in his way. 

See What I Have Done
The haunting tale of Lizzie Borden. Tick tick tick.

Life of Pi
When a cargo ship sinks, the only surviviors include a boy, a hyena, a zebra, a orangutan and a Royal Bengal tiger. 

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