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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
The world of the circus: to Jacob it was both salvation and a living hell. Jacob was there because his luck had run out-orphaned and penniless, he had no direction until he landed on this locomotive "ship of fools." It was the early part of the Great Depression, and everyone in this third-rate circus was lucky to have any job at all. Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, was there because she fell in love with the wrong man, a handsome circus boss...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Formats
Description
1944. Elizabeth's mother works at Dresden Zoo, where her favorite animal is an elephant named Marlene. When the zoo director tells her the dangerous animals must be shot to prevent them running amok when the town is bombed, Elizabeth's mother moves Marlene into the back garden to save her. And then the bombs start to fall...
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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...
5) Four nails
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In ancient India, tragedy strikes a young elephant trainer. Forced into a slave caravan that takes him through perilous lands and into a world at war, Ashoka befriends a special elephant. In a time of constant danger and uncertainty, he finds beauty and kindness when he becomes enchanted by a forbidden tanner's daughter and must help others enslaved for the pleasure of ruthless rulers. To survive this remarkable journey, the elephant trainer calls...
7) Colossus
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Language
English
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"A sweeping tale of courage, honor, and betrayal in the army of Alexander the Great Babylon, 323 BC. Alexander the Great has survived every effort to kill him. Restless, ruthless, he wonders which world to conquer next. He has a powerful new weapon--the war elephants he brought back from India. He also has a conquest in mind--the fabulous empire of Carthage. As Alexander plots, a war elephant named Colossus violently lashes out against the soldiers...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Cuban-born eleven-year-old Oriol lives in Santa Barbara, California, where she struggles to belong. But most of the time that's okay, because she enjoys helping her parents care for the many injured animals at their veterinary clinic. Then Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature, moves to town, and aspiring writer Oriol finds herself opening up. As she begins to create a world of words for herself, Oriol learns...
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English
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It's 1937, two years since Sophie Mae lost her memories of the Drycrop Farm to the Most Spectacular Traveling Box. Life in the Gardenia Estate continues to amaze with its talking elephant and circus magician who tinkers in his lab to find a growth potion for the country's ailing farms. But change has overtaken the estate, and the timing could not be worse. A stranger has come to the small town of Evenland in search of a potion to revive his own country...
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Series
Survival! volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
In 1892, Max and Jodi, young employees of a traveling circus, find their lives endangered when their train wrecks in a storm.
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