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World Animal Day!
You can make a difference for an animal! Write to your local politicians aboutanimal conservation, read about animal advocates and what you can do to protect them, adopt an animal from your local shelter, put out a bird bath or bird feeder, etc. There is so much that you can do to help, just by reading about animals, their needs, and conservation efforts!
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Hoot
Carl Hiaasen · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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This Newbery Honor-winning, hilarious Floridian adventure involves new kids, bullies, alligators, eco-warriors, pancakes, pint-sized owls, and more. A New York Times bestseller!
Everybody loves Mother Paula's pancakes. Everybody, that is, except the colony of cute but endangered... |
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Stick Dog
Tom Watson · HarperCollins
Pages: 189
Format: Hardcover
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Bushfire!: Bindi Wildlife Adventures
Bindi Irwin · Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Format: Print book
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While on an early morning bushwalk, Bindi and her best friend, Rosie, notice smoke on the horizon. Its a bushfire! As the girls watch, hot winds fan the flames, spreading the fire across the national park. The girls rush to volunteer at the Australian Wildlife Hospital caring for victims... |
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Waggit's Tale
Peter Howe · Harpercollins Childrens Books
Pages: 276
Format: Hardcover
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He is nameless.He is homeless.He is friendless.He is lost.Until he is found . . . by a team of mutts who shelter him and teach him how to survive the wilds of the city park.And so he becomes Waggit, the best hunter and tracker in the pack, and the dog with the most powerfully wagging tail.... |
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Warriors #2: Fire and Ice
Erin Hunter · HarperCollins
Format: Print book
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Fireheard could hear a roaring around him, like wind in tall trees. The acrid stench of the Thunderpath stung his nostrils, together with a new smell, sharper and more terrifying. Fire!Book Two of WARRIORS continues Firehearts quest to be a true warrior, when he finds new danger lurking... |
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The One and Only Ivan
Katherine Applegate · Harper
Pages: 305
Format: Book
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Winner of the 2013 Newbery Medal and a #1 New York Times bestseller, this stirring and unforgettable novel from renowned author Katherine Applegate celebrates the transformative power of unexpected friendships. Inspired by the true story of a captive gorilla known as Ivan, this illustrated... |
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Survivors #1: The Empty City
Erin Hunter · Harper
Pages: 275
Format: Print book
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From the #1 nationally bestselling author of Warriors comes an action-packed animal fantasy series that shows readers the world through the eyes of dogs. Survivors is full of wild and wonderful adventure (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) that will thrill fans of Spirit Animals and Wings... |
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Liberty
Kirby Larson · Scholastic Press
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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Fish has a knack for inventing. His annoying neighbor, Olympia, has a knack for messing things up. But when his latest invention leads Fish to Liberty, a beautiful stray dog who needs a home, he and Olympia work together to rescue her. At the Higgins boatyard, where the boats that just... |
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Bravelands #1: Broken Pride
Erin Hunter · HarperCollins
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Heed the call of the wild with this brand-new, action-packed animal fantasy series from the #1 nationally bestselling author of Warriors. Enter the Bravelands ... and discover the Erin Hunter series you've been waiting for. A lion cast out from his pride. An elephant who can read... |
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Dash
Kirby Larson · Scholastic Press
Pages: 243
Format: Hardcover
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Although Mitsi Kashino and her family are swept up in the wave of anti-Japanese sentiment following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Mitsi never expects to lose her home -- or her beloved dog, Dash. But, as World War II rages and people of Japanese descent are forced into incarceration camps,... |
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Big Game
Stuart Gibbs · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 342
Format: Hardcover
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Teddy Fitzroy returns as FunJungle's resident zoo sleuth when a rhinoceros is at risk in Big Game, a companion to Belly Up and Poached - which Kirkus Reviews called a "thrill-ride of a mystery."
When someone takes aim at Rhonda Rhino, FunJungle's... |
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Duke
Kirby Larson · Scholastic Press
Pages: 225
Format: Hardcover
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With World War II raging and his father fighting overseas in Europe, eleven-year-old Hobie Hanson is determined to do his part to help his family and his country, even if it means giving up his beloved German shepherd, Duke. Hoping to help end the war and bring his dad home faster, Hobie... |
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Where the Red Fern Grows (Abridged Edition, Cassettes)
Wilson Rawls · Bantam Audio/Listening Library
Format: Audio Cassette
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A young boy living in the Ozarks achieves his heart's desire when he becomes the owner of two redbone hounds and teaches them to be champion hunters. |
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Nonfiction Books
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Chernobyl's Wild Kingdom: Life in the Dead Zone
Rebecca L. Johnson · Twenty-First Century Books (CT)
Pages: 64
Format: Library Binding
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After the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear explosion in Ukraine, scientists believed radiation had created a vast and barren wasteland in which life could never resurface. But the Dead Zone, as the contaminated area is known, doesn't look dead at all. In fact, wildlife seems to be thriving there.... |
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Last of the Giants: The Rise and Fall of Earth's Most Dominant Species
Jeff Campbell · Zest Books
Pages: 271
Format: Paperback
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Today, an ancient world is vanishing right before our eyes: the age of giant animals. Over 40,000 years ago, the earth was ruled by megafauna: mammoths and mastodons, saber-toothed tigers and giant sloths. Of course, those creatures no longer exist, due to the evolution and arrival of the wildly... |
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Saving the Ghost of the Mountain: An Expedition Among Snow Leopards in Mongolia
Sy Montgomery · Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pages: 74
Format: Print book
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People call it "The Ghost of the Mountain," for those who live among snow leopards almost never see one. Beautiful spotted coats conceal these elusive cats in their rocky, high-altitude habitat - a place where temperatures are often cold enough to freeze human tears. A thick,... |
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Jane Goodall
Emma E Haldy · Cherry Lake Publishing
Pages: 24
Format: Print book
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The My Itty-Bitty Bio series are biographies for the earliest readers. This book examines the life of Jane Goodall in a simple, age-appropriate way that will help children develop word recognition and reading skills. Includes a timeline and other informative backmatter. |
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I am Jane Goodall
Brad Meltzer · Dial Books for Young Readers
Pages: 40
Format: Print book
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We can all be heroes. That's the inspiring message of this New York Times bestselling picture book biography series from historian and author Brad Meltzer. Learn all about Jane Goodall, the chimpanzee scientist.
Each picture book in this series is a biography of a significant... |
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The Elephant Scientist
Caitlin O'Connell · HMH Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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- 2012 Robert F. Sibert Informational Honor Book- 2012 Boston Globe-Horn Book Nonfiction Honor Book |
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The Young Birder's Guide to Birds of Eastern North America (Peterson Field Guides)
Bill Thompson III · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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A new Peterson Field Guide to 200 of the most common and interesting birds in eastern North America, written especially for kids ages eight to twelve.Increasingly popular among all ages, birding is an especially popular family friendly activity. This fun and lively guide provides just the right... |
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The Snake Scientist
Sy Montgomery · Houghton Mifflin
Pages: 48
Format: Book
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Dr. Robert Mason has been studying a mysterious phenomenon for over fifteen years: the reemergence of tens of thousands of red-sided garter snakes - the world's largest concentration of snakes - after a winter spent in a state of suspended animation in subterranean caverns.This... |
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Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds
Joy Adamson · Pantheon Books
Pages: 220
Format: Print book
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Relates the adventures of a lion cub reared and loved for three years by an American game warden and his wife. |
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Trapped! A Whale's Rescue
Robert Burleigh · Charlesbridge Publishing
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover
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In the icy waters of the Pacific, a massive humpback whale unexpectedly finds herself tangled in a net abandoned by fishermen. When a rescue boat and a convoy of divers arrive to help the struggling humpback, a realistic and moving encounter bridges the human and aquatic worlds. |
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Wild at Heart: Mustangs and the Young People Fighting to Save Them
Terri Farley · Harcourt Brace and Company
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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Mustangs have thrived for thousands of generations. But now they are under attack from people who see them as pests. The lucky ones are adopted. Some are sent to long-term holding pens; more and more are sold for slaughter. But courageous young people are trying to stop the round-ups and the senseless... |
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A Life in the Wild: George Schaller's Struggle to Save the Last Great Beasts
Pamela S Turner · Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pages: 103
Format: Print book
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For more than fifty years, explorer-naturalist George Schaller has been on a mission: to save the world's great wild beasts and their environments. In this compelling biography, illustrated with Schaller's own striking photographs, Pamela S. Turner examines the amazing life and groundbreaking... |
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Citizen Scientists: Be a Part of Scientific Discovery from Your Own Backyard
Loree Griffin Burns · H. Holt
Pages: 80
Format: Hardcover
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Anyone can get involved in gathering data for ongoing, actual scientific studies such as the Audubon Bird Count and FrogWatch USA. Just get out into a field, urban park, or your own backyard. You can put your nose to a monarch pupa or listen for raucous frog calls. You can tally woodpeckers... |
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101 Animal Super Powers
Melvin Berger · Turtleback Books
Pages: 112
Format: Print book
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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Find out which creatures in the animal kingdom have the coolest superpowers in this new book in the 101 Animal series! Discover some of the most extraordinary creatures in nature! This book takes a close look at 101 of the coolest tricks and superpowers... |
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Lesser Spotted Animals
Martin Brown · David Fickling Books/Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 52
Format: Print book
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Bison? They're banned! Tigers? Taboo! Say good-bye to the gnu, cheerio to the cheetah, and peace to the panda.
The world of Lesser Spotted Animals STARTS HERE!
Find out all about the amazing animals you need to know but never get to see, from the numbat to the zorilla,... |
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