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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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"Amelia Bedelia is sick the day her class goes to visit the zoo. She doesn't want to be left out, so she comes up with a brilliant idea--she'll create a zoo in her backyard, using all her classmates' pets. But she doesn't know exactly how to tell her parents about her great plan"--
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English
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"Two Feathers, a young Cherokee horse-diver on loan to Glendale Park Zoo from a Wild West show, is determined to find her own way in the world. Two's closest friend at Glendale is Hank Crawford, who loves horses almost as much as she does. He is part of a high-achieving, land-owning Black family. Neither Two nor Hank fit easily into the highly segregated society of 1920s Nashville. When disaster strikes during one of Two's shows, strange things start...
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English
Description
It's another holiday and Mayor Randall Shiffley has turned Caerphilly, Virginia into Spooky City, USA. The residents are covering every window with cobwebs and roaming the streets in costume to entertain the tourists, and Meg's grandfather is opening a new "Creatures of the Night" exhibit in the zoo. When a real body at the zoo and a suspicious fire at the Haunted House threaten to mar the town's creepy fun, it's up to Meg Langslow to save Halloween....
5) Penguins
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Penguins at the zoo have an exciting afternoon when one finds a camera left behind by a visitor.
7) Zoobreak
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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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.
10) Zoo ah-choooo
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On a sleepy Sunday at the zoo, all the animals suddenly begin to sneeze.
Author
Language
English
Description
"An electrifying novel about the primal and unyielding bond between a mother and her son, and the lengths she'll go to protect him. The zoo is nearly empty as Joan and her four-year-old son soak up the last few moments of playtime. They are happy, and the day has been close to perfect. But what Joan sees as she hustles her son toward the exit gate minutes before closing time sends her sprinting back into the zoo, her child in her arms. And for the...
Author
Series
Where's Walrus? volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Walrus and his friend Penguin escape from the zoo, the zookeeper must find them.
13) Sammy the seal
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Anxious to see what life is like outside 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.
15) The panda puzzle
Author
Series
A to Z mysteries. Main series volume 16
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose investigate the kidnapping of the new baby panda at the petting zoo.
Author
Series
Ellen and Corey volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1993], c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Ellen and her younger brother Corey are excited about their overnight camp-out at the zoo, until they discover that they are locked inside with a desperate escaped convict.
17) How to be famous
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Publisher
Gecko Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Take a trip through the zoo with this irrepressible pigeon, as she preens and poses alongside all the animals, right up to the sharp teeth of a grumpy lion ...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discovering a magical door in her bedroom that leads her to the zoo, a little girl is tempted to bring one little bear back to her room, and then a menagerie of smaller animals, and then a medley of big animals, until pandemonium ensues.
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Investigating the murder of a reverend from a local wedding chapel, zookeeper Teddy Bentley discovers that the victim was actually an escaped convict and that every wedding he has performed is invalid, a case the implicates Teddy's mother and Teddy herself.
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