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"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--'Ah-choo!'--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."--Dust jacket.
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Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Life of Pi is at once a realistic, rousing adventure and a meta-tale of survival that explores the redemptive power of storytelling and the transformative nature of fiction. It's a story, as one character puts it, to make you believe in God. A fabulist novel that combines the delight of Kipling's Just So Stories with the metaphysical adventure of Jonah and the Whale.
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How to catch-- volume 8
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When a unicorn decides to visit the zoo, a group of children do their best to catch it.
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Whenever you hear the sky rumble, that usually means a storm. In Virgil Flowers' case, make that two. The first storm comes from, of all places, the Minnesota Zoo. Two large, and very rare, Amur tigers have vanished from their cage, and authorities are worried sick that they've been stolen for their body parts. Traditional Chinese medicine prizes those parts for home remedies, and people will do extreme things to get what they need. Some of them are...
8) Life of Pi
Pub. Date
2013
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Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.
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Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2013]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
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Xander Panda's plan to host a panda party falls through, since he is the only panda at the zoo, but when he extends the invitation to all of the bears, complications ensue. Includes author's note on the wonders of the animal kingdom and the international effort to save pandas from extinction.
12) Zoo ah-choooo
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Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2012
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 27 cm.
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On a sleepy Sunday at the zoo, all the animals suddenly begin to sneeze.
13) Wild about books
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Springfield Zoo volume 1
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A librarian named Mavis McGrew introduces the animals in the zoo to the joy of reading when she drives her bookmobile to the zoo by mistake.
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Digger and Daisy volume 1
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When Digger the dog and his big sister Daisy visit the zoo, Digger tries to imitate the animals they see and Daisy tells him that although he cannot climb a tree like a monkey, he can swim in a pond like a duck.
16) Wild about us!
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
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color illustrations ; 27 cm
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From Elephant's long nose to Kangaroo's huge feet to Monkey's stick-out ears, everyone is worth celebrating, no matter what they look like.
17) Panda-monium
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FunJungle volume 4
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
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viii, 344 pages ; 22 cm.
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Teddy Fitzroy must solve the crime of the kidnapped rare and expensive panda, Li Ping.
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DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
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1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Your favorite characters are back in their most hilarious adventure yet! Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria are on the run through Europe in this wildly-entertaining and outrageous comedy critic's call 'charming and very funny'! With the fame-loving King Julian and take-charge Penguins, the whole crew joins the circus to escape Captain Dubois of Animal Control.
19) Wild about you!
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Springfield Zoo volume 3
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
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Joining the new baby animals at the zoo are the much-loved pengaroo and the pandacat.
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Incredibly dead pets of Rex Dexter volume 1
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Cursed by an old carnival game, sixth-grader Rex Dexter uses his new ability to communicate with dead animals to investigate the mysterious deaths of endangered zoo animals.
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