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2) Bearskin
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Rice Moore is just beginning to think his troubles are behind him. He's found a job protecting a remote forest preserve in Virginian Appalachia where his main responsibilities include tracking wildlife and refurbishing cabins. It's hard work, and totally solitary--perfect to hide away from the Mexican drug cartels he betrayed back in Arizona. But when Rice finds the carcass of a bear killed on the grounds, the quiet solitude he's so desperately sought...
Author
Series
Dragon chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Bryn must try to find a way to save a baby dragon from a dangerous modern world that seems to have no place for something so ancient.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"David Grann meets Susan Orlean in this page-turning true story of an underground operation into the mysterious world of alligator poaching and its larger than life Floridian characters. To catch a Florida Man, you have to become one, and that's what Officer Jeff Babauta did. As his ponytailed, whiskey-soaked alter ego, he established Sunshine Alligator Farm. His goal? Infiltrate the shady world of illegal poachers in the Florida Everglades in order...
5) Poachers
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Learn about the illegal hunting of protected animal species, from what methods poachers use to how governments and other organizations are fighting to end poaching."--
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The remarkable story of Grant Fowlds, who has dedicated his life to saving the imperiled rhinos, vividly told with Graham Spence, co- author of the bestselling The Elephant Whisperer. Growing up on a farm in the eastern Cape of South Africa, Grant developed a deep love of nature, turning his back on the hunting to focus on saving wildlife of all kinds and the environment that sustains both of them and us. He is a passionate conservationist who puts...
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Ruva, a young giraffe, is captured and sent to a zoo in San Francisco, she calls upon two rats, a street-smart chameleon, a runaway boy, and all the magical powers of the animal world to return to the warm place that is home.
Author
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
"James Patterson and award-winning Zambian writer Ellen Banda-Aaku deliver an unforgettable survival story of a Maasai girl who faces down poachers to find a future among the elephants. Clever, sensitive Jama likes elephants better than people. While her classmates gossip - especially about the new boy, Leku - Jama takes refuge at the watering hole outside her village. There the twelve-year-old Maasai girl befriends a baby elephant she names Mbegu,...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Twelve-year-old Barana and Abby come together to solve a sea turtle egg poaching mystery plaguing Barana's Honduran coastal village, and learn the true meaning of friendship, courage, and community along the way.
10) Fins
Author
Series
Sharks Incorporated volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
The world's shark population is in trouble for a sad, simple reason: shark fin soup. And although it's illegal, poachers have been targeting Florida's biannual migration of blacktip sharks. Marine biologist Doc Ford needs some assistance protecting the sharks and enlists the help of three kids, Luke, Marta, and Sabina. Together they form Sharks, Inc. and are given an important assignment: to set out each day on their small fishing boat in hopes of...
Author
Series
Secret explorers volume 8
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Learn all about forest life, the amazing Venus flytrap, and the importance of conservation in the exciting eighth adventure with The Secret Explorers. This group of brilliant kids come together from all four corners of the globe to fix problems, solve mysteries and gather knowledge all over the planet -- and beyond. Whenever their help is needed, a special sign will appear on a door. They step through to the Exploration Station, and receive their...
12) Forest world
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Children's Special Topics: Novels in Verse
Lexile 1240 to 1400
Children's Special Topics: Novels in Verse
Lexile 1240 to 1400
Description
Sent to Cuba to visit the father he barely knows, Edver is surprised to meet a half-sister, Luza, whose plan to lure their cryptozoologist mother into coming there, too, turns dangerous.
Author
Series
Alexander Cold trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Alexander Cold and his grandmother travel to Africa on an elephant-led safari, but discover a corrupt world of poaching and slavery.
14) The chessmen
Author
Series
Lewis trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Ex-Detective Inspector Fin McLeod discovers a light aircraft at the bottom of a spontaneously drained loch while investigating illegal activity on the estate of a poacher and former childhood friend.
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom/Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA. Moscow has resurrected the mammoth. But someone must teach them how to be mammoths, or they are doomed to die out, again. The late Dr. Damira Khismatullina, the world's foremost expert in elephant behavior, is called in to help. While she was murdered a year ago, her digitized consciousness is uploaded into the brain of a mammoth. Can she help the magnificent creatures...
17) The cove
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In a sleepy lagoon off the coast of Japan is a highly guarded secret. During the night, Taiji fishermen engage in an unseen hunt for thousands of dolphins. The work is so horrifying, the fishermen will stop at nothing to keep it hidden from the outside world. When a team of elite activists, filmmakers, and free-divers embark on a secret mission to penetrate their cover, the shocking discoveries they find there are just the tip of the iceberg.
Author
Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In 2006, the last of China's Yangtze river dolphins--baiji--succumbed to extinction, and la vaquita marina, a diminutive porpoise endemic to the Upper Gulf of California, quietly and without fanfare inherited the title of world's most endangered marine mammal. Unlike many other critically endangered species, the vaquita is not hunted. Nor is its habitat disappearing or degraded. The species is even protected by law. Why then have its numbers plummeted...
20) Arrowhawk
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of a bird of prey's survival after being struck by a poacher's arrow.
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