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1) Bearskin
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rice Moore is just beginning to think his troubles are behind him. He's found a job protecting a remote forest preserve in Virginian Appalachia where his main responsibilities include tracking wildlife and refurbishing cabins. It's hard work, and totally solitary--perfect to hide away from the Mexican drug cartels he betrayed back in Arizona. But when Rice finds the carcass of a bear killed on the grounds, the quiet solitude he's so desperately sought...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"David Grann meets Susan Orlean in this page-turning true story of an underground operation into the mysterious world of alligator poaching and its larger than life Floridian characters To catch a Florida Man, you have to become one, and that's what Officer Jeff Babauta did. As his ponytailed, whiskey-soaked alter ego, he established Sunshine Alligator Farm. His goal? Infiltrate the shady world of illegal poachers in the Florida Everglades in order...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"When ex-military contractor John Knox receives a text from partner Grace Chu warning that she fears her cover may have been blown while on assignment, he jumps into action. Knox must locate her overseas handlers, convince them of the danger, and then attempt to retrace the well-hidden steps of a woman who had been investigating how one million euros' worth of AIDS vaccine disappeared, all while eluding angry poachers on a parallel trail. Corruption...
Author
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"James Patterson and award-winning Zambian writer Ellen Banda-Aaku deliver an unforgettable survival story of a Maasai girl who faces down poachers to find a future among the elephants. Clever, sensitive Jama likes elephants better than people. While her classmates gossip - especially about the new boy, Leku - Jama takes refuge at the watering hole outside her village. There the twelve-year-old Maasai girl befriends a baby elephant she names Mbegu,...
8) Fins
Author
Series
Sharks Incorporated volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
The world's shark population is in trouble for a sad, simple reason: shark fin soup. And although it's illegal, poachers have been targeting Florida's biannual migration of blacktip sharks. Marine biologist Doc Ford needs some assistance protecting the sharks and enlists the help of three kids, Luke, Marta, and Sabina. Together they form Sharks, Inc. and are given an important assignment: to set out each day on their small fishing boat in hopes of...
Author
Series
World of adventure volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The fire was close, too close. Nikki's eyes were blurred by smoke and sweat. The trees crackled and the wind carried red-hot splinters that singed holes in the children's clothes and stung their skin. Where they stood would soon be nothing but blackened stalks and burnt earth. There was only one hope of escape!
Author
Series
Horse crazy (Alison Lester) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
During summer vacation in rural Australia, best friends Bonnie and Sam are taking care of two horses and helping with sheep shearing when they stumble upon a crime at Skull Rock.
Author
Publisher
Sierra Club
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
With a single hand, he can pull two palm trees to the ground. If he had two hands, he could tear the sky . . . So unfolds a Yoruba poem celebrating the largest, most powerful, and one of the smartest creatures to walk the planet: the elephant. In this richly detailed exploration of the natural history and troubled fate of both the African and Asian species of elephant, noted wildlife biologist and author Douglas Chadwick travels the world to acquaint...
12) Murder of Ravens
Author
Series
Gabriel Hawke volume 1
Publisher
Windtree Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
The ancient Indian art of tracking is his greatest strength...
And also his biggest weakness.
Fish and Wildlife State Trooper Gabriel Hawke believes he's chasing poachers. However, he comes upon a wildlife biologist standing over a body that is wearing a wolf tracking collar.
He uses master tracker skills taught to him by is Nez Perce grandfather to follow clues on the mountain. Paper trails and the whisper of rumors in the rural community where...
13) The Warm Place
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Ruva, a young giraffe, is captured and sent to a zoo in San Francisco, she calls upon two rats, a street-smart chamelion, a runaway boy, and all the magical powers of the animal world to return to "the warm place" that is home.
14) Later Gator
Author
Series
Publisher
Jana DeLeon
Pub. Date
�2016.
Language
English
Description
A poacher is at work in Sinful, Louisiana, and Deputy Carter LeBlanc is hot on the trail of the outlaw, trying to apprehend him before the state gets wind of the crime and sends a game warden to take over his investigation. Unfortunately, hes hindered every step of the way by Sinfuls current mayor and all-around horrible person, Celia Arceneaux, who wants nothing more than to drive Carter to resign. When a game warden turns up with evidence that implicates...
15) Poachers
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Learn about the illegal hunting of protected animal species, from what methods poachers use to how governments and other organizations are fighting to end poaching."--
17) The hideout
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After his parents are killed by a crazed gunman in a Seattle mall, Jeremy is on his way to live with his Uncle Ed in Chicago when the train on which he is riding crashes in a blaze of fire. Wandering aimlessly away from the wreck, Jeremy finds a deserted cabin which appears to be just the place to hide from his problems.
18) Rhinos at recess
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 37
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie to Africa where they must use magic to save a rhino and her baby from poachers"--
Author
Publisher
Prairie Plum Press
Pub. Date
©2018
Language
English
Description
"Drawn into battle by a man trying to start a western lands rebellion, Jack Chastain is sent to Kenya to hide until the storm passes and finish the research of a scientist killed by rhino poachers. While there, he hears something shocking, a campfire revelation that pitches Jack into a dangerous investigation of a ruthless rhino horn buyer. But Jack's life in New Mexico unravels, forcing him to disobey orders and return home, and onto a raft, trapped...