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Author
Language
English
Description
Brimming with charm and whimsy, this national bestseller set in the Tower of London has the transportive qualities and delightful magic of the contemporary classics Chocolat and Amélie.
Balthazar Jones has lived in the Tower of London with his loving wife, Hebe, and his 120-year-old pet tortoise for the past eight years. That’s right, he is a Beefeater (they really do live there). It’s no easy...
Balthazar Jones has lived in the Tower of London with his loving wife, Hebe, and his 120-year-old pet tortoise for the past eight years. That’s right, he is a Beefeater (they really do live there). It’s no easy...
2) Big game
Author
Series
Funjungle novel volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Someone is trying to hunt FunJungle's Asian greater one-horned rhinoceros, and twelve-year-old Teddy Fitzroy is on the case"--publisher.
3) Panda-monium
Author
Series
Funjungle novel volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Teddy Fitzroy must solve the crime of the kidnapped rare and expensive panda, Li Ping.
4) Zoo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Provides a behind-the-scenes look at a working day at the zoo, from the moment the workers arrive until the night guard locks the gate.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
To see life out of the zoo, Sammy the seal explores the city, goes to school, and plays with the children but decides that there really is no place like home, in a story with material on the origins of books in the "I Can Read" series.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
The true story of how the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Żabiński began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Żabińskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing, and, during rare moments of calm, piano concerts....
Author
Series
Mysteries on Zoo Lane volume 3
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Alex sneaks into the zoo to visit his favorite animal, but when a cat sneaks through the same hole and gets lost he must find her before any of the other animals do.
Author
Series
Mysteries on Zoo Lane volume 1
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Luke is unhappy about leaving his home and abuelo when his father takes a job at a New York zoo, but soon he has new friends and a mystery to solve. Includes facts about zoo animals and wildlife.
10) Zoobreak
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a class trip to a floating zoo where animals are mistreated and Savannah's missing pet monkey is found in a cage, Long Island sixth-grader Griffin Bing and his band of misfits plan a rescue.
12) The cat's paw
Author
Series
Gemini mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Yellow Jacket
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old twins Zach and Evie and their friend Vishal investigate the disappearance of Marvin the red panda from the zoo, but is the culprit a bobcat, animal activists, or exotic animal dealers?
13) Poached
Author
Series
Funjungle novel volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Teddy Fitzroy is the prime suspect when FunJungle's newly-acquired koala goes missing, thanks to a prank staged by middle school bully Vance Jessup.
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020].
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lexington, a foundling raised in a zoo, spends a summer cementing friendships, growing closer to the elephant that saved her life, and learning about her family and herself.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maybe there are people in Antarctica with penguins in their basements, but in Virginia? Finding a body down there is somewhat more likely for Meg. Explaining the penguins' presence is easy; Meg's dad volunteered to take care of the birds until the future of the bankrupt local zoo could be determined. But identifying the body in the basement proves a harder task. Meg and Michael have been planning to elope to avoid the elaborate wedding their mothers...
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Ant, stuck in a family that she does not like, copes by pretending that her "real" parents are coming to rescue her, by loving her dog Pistachio, by volunteering at the zoo, and by bending the truth and telling lies.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A selection of twelve stories about aliens, a community pool filled with bullies, a surprising start to the Fourth of July fireworks, and other peculiar things, with comic-book style illustrations.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the American Midwest to Finland to the coast of Africa, Caitlin Horrocks explores the dilemmas of wives, mothers, daughters, lovers, and strangers who cut imperfect paths to peace and escape. In personal worlds gone awry, they have no other choice. A Russian mail-order bride is rendered silent by her dislocation and loss of language; a subversively sadistic biology teacher takes advantage of pupil's unease; on a cruise ship held hostage by Somali...
19) Krakens and lies
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Logan and Zoe's efforts to identify a saboteur are complicated by the unchecked activities of the kraken and the agenda of Logan's famous tracker mother.
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Royal, Nebraska, population eighty-one--where the church, high school, and post office each stand abandoned, monuments to a Great Plains town that never flourished. But for nearly twenty years, they had a zoo, seven acres that rose from local peculiarity to key tourist attraction to devastating tragedy. And it all began with one man's outsize vision. When Dick Haskin's plans to assist primatologist Dian Fossey in Rwanda were cut short by her murder,...
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