Juvenile & Young Adult / Animals / Elephants

Ollie the Purple Elephant

by Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Ollie is a purple elephant who is lost and has no place to call home.  Until Shelby and Peter find him in the park—and invite him to live with them.  Soon Ollie is a regular part of the family.  He doesn't...

A Million Shades of Grey

by Cynthia Kadohata

A boy and his elephant escape into the jungle when the Viet Cong attack his village immediately after the Vietnam war.

The Adventures of ESHE: The Ethiopian Elephant

by Nancy Hahn

The Adventures of Eshe The Ethiopian Elephant’s first 3 adventures in a 8 part adventure series about a young African elephant, Eshe and her family and friends. Purple Frog, Pink Dolphin, Blue Monkey, White...

I Dream of an Elephant

by Ami Rubinger

I Dream of an Elephant takes readers through a wondrous world where they will encounter elephants of many colorful shades that sing, dance, and play. Each page's descriptive sing-song text leaves out the last...

Chained

by Lynne Kelly

After ten-year-old Hastin’s family borrows money to pay for his sister’s hospital bill, he leaves his village in northern India to take a job as an elephant keeper and work off the debt. He thinks it will...

An Elephant in the Garden

by Michael Morpurgo

Lizzie and Karl’s mother is a zoo keeper; the family has become attached to an orphaned elephant named Marlene, who will be destroyed as a precautionary measure so she and the other animals don’t run wild...

Where's Ellie?: A Hide-and-Seek Book

by Salina Yoon

Where's Ellie is a guessing game in board book form. Very young readers will love searching for Ellie the elephant among familiar colorful objects—and finding something unexpected instead. Each page offers...

The Secret Plan

by Julia Sarcone-Roach

You know how bedtime always gets in the way of fun? Not this time!

Milo and his kittycat neighbors have noticed that bedtime always seems to come just when they are having the most fun. So they hatch a secret...

Neena the Baby Elephant

by Louisa Korschenko

Book Synopsis:

Lovingly illustrated, this wonderful true story introduces the author's five-year-old son, Jonathan, who travels to Phuket, Thailand, where he meets Neena the Baby Elephant.

The two form a strong...

Hippie

by Jan Johnson & Jeremy Rosario

This is a children's book suited for 4-10 year olds.

Sister Mischief

by Laura Goode

Listen up: You're about to get rocked by the fiercest, baddest all-girl hip-hop crew in the Twin Cities - or at least in the wealthy, white, Bible-thumping suburb of Holyhill, Minnesota. Our heroine, Esme Rockett...

An elephant named Maliwan

by THANORM MAHA-PAORAYA

This gem of a novel, written during the Second World War, 

is an amazingly realistic tale of sacrifice in the name of love, 

at once humorous and tragic: 

a must-read for both teenagers and grown-ups