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Series
Incredible worlds of Wally McDoogle volume 16
Language
English
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When Wally, Opera, and Wall Street win the Gazillion Dollar Lotto, they confront the dangers of greed and materialism through a series of incidents involving bungling bad guys, a break-in to the zoo, and a SWAT team.
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English
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"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...
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English
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"Louise Erdrich meets Karen Russell in this deliciously strange and daringly original novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Margaret Verble: set in 1926 Nashville, it follows a death-defying young Cherokee horse-diver who, with her companions from the Glendale Park Zoo, must get to the bottom of a mystery that spans centuries"--
10) Zoo
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
A boy endures a tedious visit to the zoo with his family.
11) The Warm Place
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Language
English
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Description
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.
12) My school trip
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Language
English
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Description
Jack's class is at the zoo. What animals will me meet on his trip?
13) The panda puzzle
Author
Language
English
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Description
Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose investigate the kidnapping of the new baby panda at the petting zoo.
15) The egg and I
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Publisher
Silver Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
When his uncle dies and leaves Mathurin only the order to "go cook an egg," the results are astounding.
16) Fibonacci Zoo
Author
Language
English
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Description
When Eli and his father visit an unusual zoo, Eli keeps track of the numbers of animals and soon sees there is a pattern that will predict how many creatures are in the next exhibit. Includes an activity and facts about number sequences.
17) Chowder
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Chowder the bulldog has never fit in with the other neighborhood canines, but he sees a chance to make friends with the animals at the local petting zoo.
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Ant, stuck in a family that she does not like, copes by pretending that her "real" parents are coming to rescue her, by loving her dog Pistachio, by volunteering at the zoo, and by bending the truth and telling lies.