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Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
David joins his Grandma on a trip to Asia and Africa to study the problems elephants are facing. They spend a week as volunteers at an Asian elephant sanctuary in Sri Lanka, caring for the elephants. Then they fly to Kenya to meet the anti-poaching patrol, staff and researchers at a nature reserve. Find out about these amazing creatures, the dangers they face, and by working alongside local people, the ways elephants can have a more hopeful future.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
A scrappy dog named Bob and his best friends, Ivan the gorilla and Ruby the elephant, undertake a dangerous journey to seek Bob's long-lost sister, but a storm is approaching and time is running out.
Bob, a mutt of uncertain heritage, sets out on a dangerous journey in search of his long-lost sister with the help of his two best friends, Ivan the gorilla and Ruby the elephant. As a hurricane approaches and time is running out, Bob finds courage he...
9) Oliver
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Oliver the elephant looks elsewhere for employment after learning that the circus already has enough elephants.
Author
Series
One and only Ivan stories volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it at all. Instead, Ivan thinks about TV shows he's seen and about his friends Stella, an elderly elephant, and Bob, a stray dog. But mostly Ivan thinks about art and how to capture the taste of a mango or...
11) Elephant moon
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Book for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
Describes how God created elephants to be strong and powerful but also gentle and caring, especially in their relationships with each other.
12) Elephants
Author
Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Provides information on the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitats of elephant species.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there...
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Illustrations and easy-to-read text introduce such basic concepts as adjectives, adverbs, daytime, and nighttime as they follow five elephants marching from dawn to dusk.
16) Little elephants
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the social habits and behavior of elephants, including how they hug each other, greet each other, and comfort each other.
19) Tricky Tortoise
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
Tortoise outsmarts Elephant by proving he can jump right over the elephant's "tiny and stupid" head.
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