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Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
"Andy Carpenter is at the Tara Foundation's annual Christmas party. But before the stockings can be hung by the chimney with care, homicide detectives ruin the evening. Derek Moore, one of the foundation's best foster volunteers, is arrested for murder. Andy discovers Derek--whose real name is Bobby--is in the witness protection program after giving evidence against his former gang. The police believe Bobby murdered a member. But Bobby swears to Andy...
3) Puppy love
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
After saving a drowning puppy while dealing with a huge crush on his classmate Sierra, thirteen-year-old Jordan Mendoza nurses the abandoned puppy back to health and wonders who threw her into the canal and if there are more puppies needing rescue.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Retired lawyer Andy Carpenter remembers every dog that's come through the Tara Foundation's doors, but the most well-known alum may be Mamie. Adopted by famous actress Jenny Nichols--Andy's high school girlfriend--the miniature French poodle is practically a starlet in her own right. Andy and his wife, Laurie, have dinner with Jenny while she's in town filming her next big hit. But the next morning Jenny's costar is found dead. Jenny is arrested...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United States in 2019. Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler was six years old when his father disappeared during Kristallnacht--the night their family lost everything. Samuel's mother secured a spot for him on the last Kindertransport...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Flight 1421 crashes into the ocean six minutes after take-off, the surviving passengers believe they are the lucky ones until the plane starts to sink to the ocean floor, trapping them inside, and they must wait to be rescued as both air and time run out.
Six minutes after takeoff, Flight 1421 crashes into the Pacific Ocean. The plane sinks to the bottom with twelve passengers trapped inside. More than two hundred feet below the surface, engineer...
7) Finding Bear
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2024
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
"While journeying to the northernmost reaches of the Arctic, April Wood discovers a tiny polar bear cub in desperate need of her help, and in freezing temperatures and on dangerous terrain, she must face her deepest fears to save him"--
Author
Series
Sunrise Cove novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
Running her farm-to-table caf ǎs well as a menagerie of rescued animals, Luna Wright, when the owner of Apple Ridge Farm passes away and his investment manager takes over control, she, with her home threatened, must dig deep to find true strength and the real meaning of love and family.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Some dogs were born to lend a helping hand (or paw!). Zeus, a chocolate lab puppy, is one of them. With his courage, smarts, and strength his purpose seems clear: he'll become a water rescue dog! When a young boy named Kimo is tasked with training Zeus, they quickly become best friends. But Zeus's excitement makes training hard, and worse yet, becoming a working dog means being separated from Kimo. Can Zeus and his boy figure out how to stay together...
11) Scruffy
Author
Series
Puppy place volume 67
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Charles and Lizzie Peterson love puppies. Their family fosters these young dogs, giving them love and proper care, until they can find the perfect forever home. When Charles and Lizzy find Scruffy stuck in a fence at a scary old house, they aren't sure if she's lost or been abandoned. Either way, Scruffy has learned that smiling at humans always gets her what she wants... and soon so does the rest of the world. When she hits social media, Scruffy...
12) Crocs
Author
Series
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After a summer of tagging sharks off the west coast of Florida, Sabina, Maribel, and Luke have a new assignment: searching for "survivor trees" that are resistant to the disease that is destroying the state's citrus trees; the search takes them to the remote mangrove islands of Sanibel Island, where they discover Spanish oranges, a grave, an immense saltwater crocodile, a reclusive woman who believes that the ghost of a dead king, beheaded by Spanish...
Author
Series
Star and the shamrock volume 3
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"Dublin 1950Liesl Bannon has never felt like she was truly at home anywhere, not since her mother placed her and her brother Erich on the last Kindertransport out of Berlin in 1939. She'd been so much more fortunate than most Jews, saved from the horrors of the Nazi regime. Being adopted by Elizabeth and Daniel Lieber meant she and Erich spent the war in Northern Ireland, safe and loved, but Liesl always knew something was missing. When an opportunity...
Author
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Describes the field of wildlife rehabilitation through true stories of sick, injured, and orphaned wild animals given a second chance at a large urban wildlife center. Photographs demonstrate the efforts of staff and volunteers as they work to rescue, treat, and rehabilitate urban wild animals harmed by human activity.