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World of adventure volume 3
Language
English
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Nikki Roberts feels very grown up when her parents leave her alone in their mountain lodge for a few days. The 13-year-old has promised them she will not take any long horseback rides or canoe trips, so she saddles Goblin and heads for a nearby sheep meadow for the afternoon. It's not long before Nikki's trail leads her into perilous territory. She surprises deadly poachers at work who are shooting bighorn rams for trophies. Her CB radio picks up...
Author
Series
Akimbo series volume 1
Language
English
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On the African game preserve where his father works, Akimbo devises a dangerous plan to capture a ring of elephant poachers.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
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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.
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English
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"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
Panamericana Editorial
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
An experienced conservationist, his daughter, a young oceanography student, and a brave fisherman team up to take down a band of poachers threatening hundreds of sea turtles who have come to a Brazilian beach to lay their eggs.
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Series
Secret agent Jack Stalwart volume 6
Publisher
Weinstein Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Jack is an ordinary kid who becomes a secret agent by night, thwarting evil all over the world as he searches for his missing brother, Max. Destination: Kenya. Finally, Jack receives a coded message from Max! But before he can decipher it, Jack is called away on a mission to Kenya. Someone has been killing elephants for their ivory tusks. Can Secret Agent Jack Stalwart stop the poachers before more of these endangered animals are destroyed?
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English
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"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...
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English
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"No stranger to wildlife, Nick Jans had lived in Alaska for nearly thirty years. But when one evening at twilight a lone black wolf ambled into view not far from his doorstep, Nick would finally come to know this mystical species--up close as never before. A Wolf Called Romeo is the remarkable story of a wolf who returned again and again to interact with the people and dogs of Juneau, living on the edges of their community, engaging in an improbable,...
12) La selva
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
A Edver no le hace ninguna gracia que lo envíen a Cuba a ver al padre que apenas conoce. Sin embargo, ahora que las leyes de viaje han cambiado y es mucho más fácil reunir a las familias divididas, su mamá piensa que es hora de que padre e hijo pasen tiempo juntos. Edver no se imagina lo que le depara el verano, ¡pero definitivamente no espera conocer a la hermana que ni siquiera sabía que existía! Luza es un año mayor y está muy entusiasmada...
13) Rhinos at recess
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Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 37
Language
English
Description
"The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie to Africa where they must use magic to save a rhino and her baby from poachers"--
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...
15) Forest world
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A lush and vivid mystery set in Yellowstone National Park where a skirmish between a local hunter and a wolf biologist turns violent, and a park ranger, facing his own personal demons, sets out to determine what really happened"--
Author
Series
Dragon chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
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.
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English
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"When ex-military contractor John Knox receives a text from partner Grace Chu warning that she fears her cover may have been blown while on assignment, he jumps into action. Knox must locate her overseas handlers, convince them of the danger, and then attempt to retrace the well-hidden steps of a woman who had been investigating how one million euros' worth of AIDS vaccine disappeared, all while eluding angry poachers on a parallel trail. Corruption...
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