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1) Chomp
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When the difficult star of the reality television show "Expedition Survival" disappears while filming an episode in the Florida Everglades using animals from the wildlife refuge run by Wahoo Crane's family, Wahoo and classmate Tuna Gordon set out to find him while avoiding Tuna's gun-happy father.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"When Lawrence Anthony was asked to accept a rogue herd of elephants in his reserve in South Africa, it was the last chance for these elephants. If Anthony didn't take them, they would be shot. But he had no experience with elephants at all. What was he to do? Take them on, of course!"--
3) Tigress
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Herdsmen work with a wildlife sanctuary ranger to keep their animals safe from a marauding tigress.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Jamie is a Florida Woman. She grew up on the beach, thrives in humidity, has weathered more hurricanes than she can count, and now, after going viral for an outrageous crime she never meant to commit in the first place, she has the requisite headline to her name. But when the chance comes for her to escape viral infamy and imminent jail time by taking a community service placement at Atlas, a shelter for rescued monkeys, it seems like just the fresh...
Author
Series
Girl of the year. 2021: Kira volume 2
Girl of the year. Kira volume 2
Girl of the year. 2021 Kira volume 2
Girl of the year. Kira volume 2
Girl of the year. 2021 Kira volume 2
Publisher
American Girl Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Children's New Books: February 2022 Middle Grade Fiction
Children's Special Topics: Chapter Books with Color Illustrations
Children's Special Topics: Chapter Books with Color Illustrations
Description
Kira teams up with Evie, a student at the animal sanctuary to track down the paradise parrot--a bird thought to be extinct--and prove that it still exists. While they're trying to observe the elusive bird, bushfires threaten to wipe out the sanctuary and the parrot's habitat. There's no choice but to evacuate all the animals, which is a huge task even without trying to track down a missing baby wallaby. As the bushfires rage out of control, Kira makes...
Author
Series
Wildlife rescue volume 3
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Twins Ben and Zoe are sent to the jungles of Borneo to rescue an orangutan and save his refuge from illegal logging.
9) Sanctuaries
Author
Series
Publisher
Sylvan Dell Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes what wild-animal sanctuaries do and shows rescued animals, including tigers, a binturong, a declawed Canadian lynx, a pair of blind bobcats, and a bear.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Although orangutans are not supposed to like water, an orangutan living at a wildlife preserve in South Carolina plays with her dog friend in the bathtub and learns to swim and dive in the pool. Based on a true story.
Author
Series
Alex Carter novels volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A remote camera on a large, rugged expanse held by the Land Trust for Wildlife Conservation picks up an image of what could be a mountain caribou. Alex Carter is asked to investigate: mountain caribou went extinct in the contiguous U.S. years ago. She arrives on scene in the Selkirk mountains of northeastern Washington state to learn that loggers and activists are clashing over a swath of old growth forest marked for clearcutting. Then the murdered...
Author
Series
Nancy Drew clue books volume 11
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Nancy, Bess, and George are excited about their school trip to the Wildlife Refuge, but when they arrive the animal Nancy most wants to see, a sixty-year-old tortoise, is on the loose.
Author
Series
Alex Carter novels volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"While studying wolverines on a wildlife sanctuary in Montana, biologist Alex Carter is run off the road and threatened by locals determined to force her off the land. Undeterred in her mission to help save this threatened species, Alex tracks wolverines on foot and by cameras positioned in remote regions of the preserve. But when she reviews the photos, she discovers disturbing images of an animal of a different kind: a severely injured man seemingly...
Author
Publisher
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Presents an assessment of the contributions made by animal sanctuaries and rescue centers, describing international efforts that have saved the lives of countless animals in need.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
Ruby's story picks up a few months after the events of The One and Only Bob. Now living in a wildlife sanctuary, Ruby's caretaker from the elephant orphanage in Africa where she grew up is visiting. Seeing him again brings back a flood of memories both happy and sad of her life before the circus, and she recounts the time she spent in the African savanna to Ivan and Bob.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Lawrence Anthony and Françoise Malby love animals, so when they hear that a herd of wild African elephants needs a new home, they welcome the herd to their wildlife sanctuary--Thula Thula--with open arms. What follows in this beautifully illustrated true story is an extraordinary cross-species friendship that will move readers and warm the hearts of animal lovers at every age"--
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