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Publisher
NGC Network US
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Alaskan heroes rescue, rehabilitate, research, and celebrate the wild animals of America's last frontier. Representing three renowned conservation centers, these animal lovers work by land, sea, and air in one of the most challenging places on our planet protecting Alaska's wildlife.
82) Freeing Finch
Author
Publisher
Starscape
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When her father leaves and her mother passes away soon afterward, Finch can't help feeling abandoned. Now she's stuck living with her stepfather and his new wife. They're mostly nice, but they don't believe the one true thing Finch knows about herself: that she's a girl, even though she was born in a boy's body. Thankfully, she has Maddy, a neighbor and animal rescuer who accepts her for who she is. Finch helps Maddy care for a menagerie of lost and...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Paw Patrol is on a roll, even through the ice and snow, in these seven wintery missions, including a double-length adventure to save Christmas! From a ski-lift rescue to tracking down a snow monster, no job is too big and no pup is too small. Plus, see how Rubble first joined the team by helping out in a snowy situation!
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Mallory Martin left her marriage and her unfulfilling job to move back to her hometown of Hillspring, Arkansas, and start a horse rescue. It's everything she's been missing, with paddocks of happy horses and one very quirky donkey. But when her cantankerous neighbor and longtime critic, Albert Cunningham, is found murdered in his fancy show barn, Mallory becomes suspect number one. Since Sheriff Grady Sullivan is ignoring all good sense and focusing...
Author
Series
Jasmine Green rescues volume 2
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Jasmine Green's mom is a veterinarian and her dad is a farmer. She has spent her life surrounded by animals. So when she sees animals that need rescuing, she knows just what to do. While walking in the woods, Jasmine and her best friend, Tom, find a nest of orphaned duck eggs. The eggs need lots of care. Hatching them is hard work. Can Jasmine keep the eggs warm and safe? With a little love and luck, the Green family farm will have a fluffy duckling...
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Selvi loves the animals that live on the mountains behind her home, particularly the beautiful golden leopard, Lokka, and she is determined to protect him from the hunter Jansz who both threatens not only Lokka, but Selvi's family as well.
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2012, c2010
Language
English
Description
In December 2008, two abandoned horses were spotted by snowmobilers high in the Canadian Rockies. Starving and frostbitten, the animals trampled the deep snow into a narrow white prison. This is the story of a near-impossible rescue mission.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Jeremy Washington couldn't be happier running his therapy program for at-risk teens. Between weekend service projects and hanging out with his faithful rescue dog, Rolo, Jeremy doesn't have time to date--which is fine with him considering the mess his early marriage turned out to be. When he meets new yoga teacher Ava Graham, Jeremy thinks the kids would really benefit from learning yoga, and Ava would be the perfect fit. Ava quickly finds herself...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In Chiang Mai, Thailand, nine-year-old Tua releases an abused elephant from its chains--can she complete the rescue by getting it to an elephant refuge without being caught herself?
Publisher
Nickelodeon
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Save the day with six huge and heroic rescues. EmBARK on two daring double-length adventures as the Patrol transforms into magical Mer-Pups to save underwater friends and rescues Adventure Bay from a dinosaur invasion! Plus, join the pups as they save Jake, the Adventure Day Parade, a kitty, and even Marshall!
Author
Series
Unicorn Rescue Society volume 4
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"A new adventure begins for Elliot and Uchenna when Professor Fauna bursts into their classroom with a frightening report from the Texas-Mexico border: something has completely drained the blood from a cow's body! The team must fly to Laredo, where tempers are running high. Teaming up with local kids Lupita and Mateo--plus their brilliant mother, Dr. Alejandra Cervantes, and her curandero husband, Israel--can the Unicorn Rescue Society save the region's...
95) Endangered
Author
Series
Ape quartet volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sophie is not happy to be back in the Congo for the summer, but when she rescues an abused baby bonobo she becomes more involved in her mother's sanctuary--and when fighting breaks out and the sanctuary is attacked, it is up to Sophie to rescue the apes and somehow survive in the jungle.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Told in rhyme, Moby puts his ninja skills to work "helping" at the local firehouse, but he ends up making more work for the fire fighters--but his skills do come in handy when a cat needs rescuing.
97) How to cowboy
Author
Series
Creedence horse rescue volume 3
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"After one injury too many, Cade gave up the rodeo for a simpler life working at his cousin's horse rescue ranch. But his life turns upside down when his estranged daughter is placed in his custody after a tragic car accident. Wanting nothing to do with her father, thirteen year-old Allie struggles to adjust to her new life. Nora Fisher never thought her last relationship would leave her empty-handed and empty-hearted, back home in her mother's basement....
98) Chasing jaguars
Author
Series
Wild Survival volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Adrianna Villalobos and her older brother Feye travel the globe with their parents, the hosts of a suspenseful nature show called "Wild Survival!" The show features daring animal rescues and the work the family does at their animal sanctuary. Their latest adventure takes them to Mexico. There they are tracking an injured and endangered jaguar. Packed with animal facts and illustrations, as well as non-fiction backmatter, Wild Survival...
Publisher
Nickelodeon
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Fierce animals need rescuing too! Join Diego for a double-length adventure recalling some of the fiercest animals he's ever rescued! Gorillas and grizzly bears, hippos and lions, even an octopus in Australia! And when a big jaguar is lost in a nearby village, Diego, Baby Jaguar, his team, and viewers need to save the day! Plus, help Diego rescue a Pampas cat and her kittens and a cotton-top tamarin lost in a cave!
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Funny Farm is an inspiring and moving memoir of the author's turbulent life with 600 rescue animals. Laurie Zaleski never aspired to run an animal rescue; that was her mother Annie's dream. But from girlhood, Laurie was determined to make the dream come true. Thirty years later as a successful businesswoman, she did it, buying a 15-acre farm deep in the Pinelands of South Jersey. Laurie had planned to relocate Annie and her caravan of ragtag rescues-horses...
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