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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there...
2) Elephants
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents an introduction to elephants, discussing their bodies, families, eating and bathing habits, and evolution, briefly explains why elephants are becoming scarce.
Author
Series
Elephant and Piggie books volume 11
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Piggie ruins a perfectly good day by telling Gerald the elephant that she is going, sending him into a panic.
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 33
Publisher
Dodd, Mead
Pub. Date
c1972
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Walt is not the tallest or the curliest or the pointiest or even the crunchiest. A confounded blade of grass searches for his 'est' in this hilarious story about growing up"--
Author
Series
What elephants know volume 1
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In the threatened jungle of the Borderlands between Nepal and India during the 1970s, an orphaned boy discovers his fate as a great elephant driver.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Lizzie and Karl's mother is a zoo keeper; the family has become attached to an orphaned elephant named Marlene, who will be destroyed as a precautionary measure so she and the other animals don't run wild should the zoo be hit by bombs. The family persuades the zoo director to let Marlene stay in their garden instead. When the city is bombed, the family flees with thousands of others, but how can they walk the same route when they have an elephant...
10) Elephant run
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Nick endures servitude, beatings, and more after his British father's plantation in Burma is invaded by the Japanese in 1941, and when his father and others are taken prisoner and Nick is stranded with his friend Mya, they plan a daring escape on elephants, risking their lives to save Nick's father and Mya's brother from a Japanese prisoner of war camp.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Missing her mother who has returned to Turkey to resolve an immigration problem, sixth-grader Sila welcomes a very large distraction in her life when she helps a surprising new friend rescue a circus elephant.
15) Elephant secret
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sam and her father scrape by caring for rescued elephants until an offer comes through that may not only save the sanctuary, it may also restore an extinct species. Includes facts about woolly mammoths and cloning.
Author
Series
Death on Demand mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Avon Twilight
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In 1920s London, pickpocket Alice Diamond scrambles to survive in her gritty neighborhood. With her father in prison and her brother in debt to a crime syndicate, she struggles to protect her father's territory. Recruited by Mary Carr, Alice joins a female gang, the Forty Elephants, and tastes success. But it's not long before she wants more--no matter the cost.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[c1940]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a lazy bird hatching an egg wants a vacation, she asks Horton, the elephant, to sit on her egg--which he does through all sorts of hazards until he is rewarded for doing what he said he would.
19) White elephant
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A crackling Christmas mystery that combines murder and blackmail at a holiday office party,"--
20) Elephant calves
Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Read about how elephant calves grow to be the largest animal on land and how zookeepers take care of them.This level 3 guided reader book includes intriguing facts and adorable photos. Students will develop word recognition and reading skills while learning about how these baby animals learn and grow, what they eat, and how they socialize with each other. Book includes table of contents, glossary, index, author biographies, sidebars, and word list...
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