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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
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Description
Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it at all. Instead, Ivan thinks about TV shows he's seen and about his friends Stella, an elderly elephant, and Bob, a stray dog. But mostly Ivan thinks about art and how to capture the taste of a mango or...
2) Leaving time
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe she was abandoned, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice?s old journals. A scientist who studied grief among elephants, Alice wrote mostly of her research among the animals she loved, yet Jenna hopes the entries will provide a clue to...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her.
Author
Series
Bravelands volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
"After an act of betrayal rocks the Bravelands, baboon Thorn must find a way to confront treachery in his own troop, while elephant Sky searches for answers and lion Fearless contends with the usurper who conquered his father's pride"--
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and easy-to-read text introduce such basic concepts as adjectives, adverbs, daytime, and nighttime as they follow five elephants marching from dawn to dusk.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
In this novel-in-verse that picks up a few months after the events of The One and Only Bob, Ruby recounts her life before the circus when her caretaker from the elephant orphanage in Africa comes for a visit.
Ruby's story picks up a few months after the events of The One and Only Bob . Now living in a wildlife sanctuary, Ruby's caretaker from the elephant orphanage in Africa where she grew up is visiting. Seeing him again brings back a flood of memories...
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Discovering that her veterinarian husband has cheated on her, Neelie Sterling tries to win him back by accompanying him on a journey to Zimbabwe to rescue a badly abused elephant, and as she struggles to help it heal, she stumbles upon other family secrets.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The Elephant of Belfast chronicles a seven-month period of time when the Germans unexpectedly bombed Belfast, Northern Ireland, also known as the Belfast Blitz. Through the lens of the Bellevue Zoo and one of its zookeepers, twenty-year-old Hettie Quin, the novel animates how the war irrevocably impacted-and shaped the lives of Belfast's citizens in broad and intimate ways. In October 1940, Hettie meets Violet, a three-year-old Asian elephant arriving...
14) Not so fast!
Author
Series
Disney's storytime treasures library volume 9
Publisher
Advance Publishers
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
When Dumbo the young elephant realizes that he can fly, he wants to fly everywhere and do everything as fast as he can, until he learns that faster isn't always better.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
As the temperature rises in Gaborone, Precious Ramotswe, founder of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, wonders whether the heat could be the reason that business is particularly slow. But then a distant cousin of Mma Ramotswe's comes to the agency with a plea for help and the ladies decide to pursue the issue together. Armed with Mma Ramotswe's circumspection and Mma Makutsi's sharp eye, they proceed with confidence and open hearts. What, after all,...
Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
1989.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 1070L
Language
English
Description
An elephant's eleventh birthday party is marked by eleven games preceding the banquet to be eaten at the eleventh hour; but when the time to eat arrives, the birthday feast has disappeared. The reader is invited to guess the thief.
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