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3) Zookeeper
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Description
The animals at the Franklin Park Zoo love their kindhearted caretaker, Griffin Keyes. Finding himself more comfortable with a lion than a lady, Griffin decides the only way to get a girl in his life is to leave the zoo and find a more glamorous job. The animals, in a panic, decide to break their time-honored code of silence and reveal their biggest secret: they can talk! To keep Griffin from leaving, they decide to teach him the rules of courtship,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 900L
Language
English
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Description
From Caldecott Honor winning team Steve Jenkins and Robin Page comes an early introduction to one of young readers favorite places: the zoo! Just a few things that a zookeeper might do at their job to keep their animals healthy, well fed, and safe would be to brush a hippo's tusks, play soccer with a rhino, or pretend to be a vulture's mother.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 580L
Language
English
Description
Amos McGee, a friendly zookeeper, always made time to visit his good friends: the elephant, the tortoise, the penguin, the rhinoceros, and the owl. But one day, he woke with the sniffles and the sneezes. Though he didn't make it into the zoo that day, he did receive some unexpected guests. -- Page [4] of cover.
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English
Description
"When zookeeper Theodora 'Teddy' Bentley fishes the body of Koala Kate out of Gunn Landing Harbor, she discovers that her fellow zookeeper didn't drown; she was strangled. The clues to Koala Kate's killer implicate other animal keepers at Gunn Zoo, including Outback Bill, marsupial keeper and Kate's Aussie ex-boyfriend; and Robin Chase, the big cat keeper who's got it in for Teddy. Also displaying suspicious behavior are several 'liveaboarders' at...
7) Zookeepers
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
370L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Zookeepers, vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they discover how zookeepers work in zoos to keep animals safe and healthy.
Author
Series
Where the wild hearts are volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Love runs wild at the Sagebrush Flats Zoo, where a motley crew of big-hearted animals helps the most unlikely couples find love. When Katie Underwood discovers a litter of newborn cougar cubs, the last person she expects to come to the rescue is her former crush -- and high school nemesis--Bowie Wilson . . . As a single father and owner of a cash-strapped zoo, Bowie struggles to balance budgets while raising his pre-teen daughter and a host of rascally...
9) Zookeepers
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
270L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Zookeepers are people who take care of animals at the zoo. Read this book to learn about the kinds of things zookeepers do every day.
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Series
Language
English
Description
When Lucy, a pregnant giant anteater from Belize, is blamed for killing the man found dead in her pen, California zookeeper Teddy Bentley races against time to find the real culprit before Lucy is shipped to another zoo, but her investigation is undermined by another murder, a threatened eviction, a father on the lam, and a socialite mother out to destroy her romance with Sheriff Joe Rejas.
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Language
English
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"From the bestselling author of Bird Box, a novella collection in which every story reveals a sinister secret about a mysterious small town. The town of Goblin seems like any other ordinary small town. But with the master storyteller Josh Malerman as your tour guide, you'll discover the secrets that hide behind the town's closed doors. These six novellas tell the story of a place where the rain is always falling, nighttime is always near, and your...
13) Where's walrus?
Author
Series
Where's Walrus? volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In this wordless picture book, follow Walrus on a happy-go-lucky spree through the big city, as he tries on different hats to disguise himself from the chasing zookeeper.
Author
Series
Where the wild hearts are volume 2
Language
English
Description
After his best-selling account of rescuing polar bear cubs while working on an Arctic oil rig, Magnus Gray has hit a career slump. To add insult to injury, his editor has assigned him to a remote, dusty town called Sagebrush Flats to write about the local zoo's latest resident, a fuzzy polar bear cub. Magnus has a soft spot for the bear, but wants to flee the town. Until one Sagebrush resident has him questioning everything... June Winters is a people...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 850L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Zoos are amazing places to see and learn about the many native and exotic of animals that inhabit this world. Some animals are plentiful while others are threatened or in danger of extinction. Zookeepers not only feed and care for these animals, they may also be helping to conserve and protect whole species through breeding and “head start” programs. Follow the extraordinary duties of these unusual animal helpers in this behind-the-scenes photographic...
18) Zoo workers
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Working at a zoo is a great career path for someone who loves animals and isn't afraid of hands-on work. Through engaging text and fun fact boxes, readers discover what zoo workers do and how a person can prepare for a career in this field. Additional information is provided in a clear graphic organizer. Colorful photographs of zoo animals and the workers who care for them keep readers entertained with each turn of the page. It takes special skills...
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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...
20) Zookeeper
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
HL 500L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Provides information on becoming a zookeeper.
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