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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Whenever you hear the sky rumble, that usually means a storm. In Virgil Flowers' case, make that two. The exceptional new thriller from the writer whose books are "pure reading pleasure" (Booklist) The first storm comes from, of all places, the Minnesota zoo. Two large, and very rare, Amur tigers have vanished from their cage, and authorities are worried sick that they've been stolen for their body parts. Traditional Chinese medicine prizes those...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Amos McGee, a friendly zookeeper, always made time to visit his good friends: the elephant, the tortoise, the penguin, the rhinoceros, and the owl. But one day--'Ah-choo!'--he woke with the sniffles and the sneezes. Though he didn't make it into the zoo that day, he did receive some unexpected guests."--Dust jacket.
7) The wild
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Sampson is a lion on display at a zoo in New York City's Central Park, and he holds court over all the other animals, including Nigel, a testy koala bear; Larry, a dumb but well-meaning snake; Kazar, a wildebeest with a passion for choreography; Bridget, a bright but cynical giraffe; and Benny, a squirrel who is good friends with Sampson and is trying to romance Bridget without much success. Ryan is the pride and joy of Sampson's life and he becomes...
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Your favorite characters are back in their most hilarious adventure yet! Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria are on the run through Europe in this wildly-entertaining and outrageous comedy critic's call 'charming and very funny'! With the fame-loving King Julian and take-charge Penguins, the whole crew joins the circus to escape Captain Dubois of Animal Control.
9) Madagascar
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A lion and zebra and two other of their pampered friends, from New York's Central Park Zoo, accidentally find themselves on a ship heading for Africa. When their vessel is hijacked, they become shipwrecked on the exotic island of Madagascar where they discover it really is a jungle out there!
Author
Series
How to catch-- volume 8
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A very clever unicorn eludes the traps of children as he visits his animal friends at the zoo.
12) Zoo babies
Author
Series
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
[1978]
Language
English
Description
Portrays a variety of young animals in a zoo and shows how zoo personnel meet their needs and take care of them.
13) Merry Madagascar
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"When Santa and his reindeer crash onto the island of Madagasgar, it's up to Alex, Marty, Gloria, Melman and those wacky penguins to save Christmas"--Container.
14) Wild about books
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A librarian named Molly McGrew introduces the animals in the zoo to the joy of reading when she drives her bookmobile to the zoo by mistake.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Xander's plan to host a panda party falls through, since he is the only panda at the zoo, but when he extends the invitation to all of the bears, complications ensue. Includes author's note on the wonders of the animal kingdom and the international effort to save pandas from extinction.
17) Silly doggy!
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Lily discovers a bear in her garden, she mistakenly thinks it is a dog and wants to keep it for her pet.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched...
Publisher
Dreamworks Animation
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The Penguins have a two-fold mission. First, they must assure that a young leopard seal named Hunter makes it back to Antarctica safely without becoming fish food. Second, they must get Private back from the leopard seals without becoming dinner.
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