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1) Scat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Nick and Marta are both suspicious when their biology teacher, the feared Mrs. Bunny Starch, disappears, and try to uncover the truth despite the police and headmaster's insistence that nothing is wrong.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A vibrant history of the modern conservation movement-told through the lives and ideas of the people who built it. In the late nineteenth century, as humans came to realize that our rapidly industrializing and globalizing societies were driving other animal species to extinction, a movement to protect and conserve them was born. In Beloved Beasts, acclaimed science journalist Michelle Nijhuis traces the movement's history: from early battles to save...
Publisher
PBS Kids
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The Kratt Brothers are ready to take kids on an incredible adventure, as they come face to face with some of the most wild and exciting predators in the animal kingdom! Join Martin and Chris Kratt as they learn the ways of the cheetah, a wolf pack, birds of prey, and even uncover the mysteries of the great white shark! All while thwarting evildoers before it's too late!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
As she grows through the first years of her life in the Catskill Mountains of New York, a peregrine falcon called Frightful interacts with various humans, including the boy who raised her, a falconer who rescues her, and several unscrupulous poachers, as well as with many animals that are part of the area's ecological balance.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Simon is attacked in the wilderness and is rescued by a rare white Kermode bear. When he learns there are only 400 of these bears in existence, he turns from shy stuttering daydreamer to political activist.
9) Trophy
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Examines big-game hunting, breeding, and wildlife conservation in the U.S. and Africa and the consequences of treating animals as commodities.
Author
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls 'an animal rights organization.' Tom's team needs a last-minute grunt to handle things on their next field visit. Jamie, eager to do anything, immediately signs on. What Tom doesn't tell Jamie is that the animals his team cares for are not here on...
11) Braving Iraq
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In the early 1990s, Saddam Hussein destroyed the Mesopotamian Marshes, once the richest wildlife habitat in the Middle East. Now one man is making an extraordinary effort to restore both animals and people to the scene of one of the greatest ecocides of the twentieth century. Is it a dream too far? Can man and animal live again in what remains one of the most politically troubled and dangerous places on Earth?
Author
Series
Legend of the animal healer volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After a fire kills her parents, eleven-year-old Martine must leave England to live with her grandmother on a wildlife game reserve in South Africa, where she befriends a mythical white giraffe.
13) Species hunter
Publisher
Digiview Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Marc van Roosmalen is a biologist with a passion for primates. His love of monkeys has taken him on the adventures of a lifetime, to the little known forests of Brazil. Here he has found such unique diversity of life that he has become a professional species hunter, discovering, naming and reclassifying species. He has already named 20 new kinds of monkeys. He is now searching for large unknown mammals in the forest.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"This is a collection of beautiful illustrations of 43 endangered animals from around the world. From freshwater to oceans, forests, mountains, tundra and desert, grasslands and wetlands, rare and well-known animals are endangered - some critically, someless so. Peary caribous, giant garter snakes, giraffes, puffins, and many more appear on these rich and varied pages, in full color hand-drawn illustrations, alive and vivid in the reader's hands....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the Sibert medal winning author of TEAM MOON and the bestselling GIRLS THINK OF EVERYTHING comes a riveting, timely account of panda conservation efforts in China, perfect for budding environmentalists and activists.
16) Born to be wild
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
[Widescreen format].
Language
English
Description
A short, nature documentary that examines the lives of orphaned orangutans and elephants because of poaching and habitat encroachment and follows the efforts of individuals who work to rescue, rehabilitate, and return these animals to the wild.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Books
Pub. Date
1992
Edition
1st Aladdin Books ed.
Language
English
Description
A fictional retelling, from the point of view of Annie Bronn Johnston, of how this Nevada woman fought to protect the American wild horse, the mustang, from extinction because of professional killers who chased the horses for use in dog food.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Inviting us to meet wild species on our own terms in a range of ecosystems spanning the globe, this radical new kind of environmental journalism connects humans to nature in a more empathetic way than ever before and encourages us to defend the natural world before it's too late.
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