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1) The darling
Author
Language
English
Description
Set in Liberia and the United States from 1975 through 1991, The Darling is the story of Hannah Musgrave, a political radical and member of the Weather Underground. Hannah flees America for West Africa, where she and her Liberian husband become friends of the notorious warlord and ex-president, Charles Taylor. Hannah's encounter with Taylor ultimately triggers a series of events whose momentum catches Hannah's family in its grip and forces her to...
2) The maze
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Rick, a fourteen-year-old foster child, escapes from a juvenile detention facility near Las Vegas and travels to Canyonlands National Park in Utah, where he meets a bird biologist working on a project to reintroduce condors to the wild.
3) Big Blue
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young girl's dream to swim with a blue whale may finally come true when her mother, a writer, arranges for them to accompany her friends who are marine biologists on a research trip to Mexico.
Author
Series
Vet volunteers volume 4
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Brenna, Maggie, and Zoe go to Florida to visit a manatee rescue center, where they learn about these endangered marine mammals.
7) Bare bones
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
It's a summer of sizzling heat in Charlotte where Dr. Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist for the North Carolina medical examiner, looks forward to her first vacation in years. A romantic vacation. She's almost out the door when the bones start appearing. A newborn's charred remains turn up in a woodstove. A small plane crashes in a North Carolina cornfield on a sunny afternoon. Both pilot and passenger are burned beyond recognition. And what...
Author
Series
Mysteries in our national parks volume 7
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
While she studies condors in the Grand Canyon, a scientist's life is threatened, and the strange, hostile, teenage computer whiz in her family's foster care might be involved.
Author
Series
Bill and Pete volume 3
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Bill the crocodile and his toothbrush, Pete the plover, set out to save Bill's cousin, who has been captured along with other endangered animals and taken from Egypt to Bad Guy's Big Bad Brother's Exotic Animal Farm near New Orleans, Louisiana.
Author
Publisher
MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
From Jeff VanderMeer, the author of Annihilation, comes a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered species, and the end of all things--
Security consultant “Jane Smith” receives an envelope with a key to a storage unit that holds a taxidermied hummingbird and clues leading her to a taxidermied salamander. Silvina, the dead woman who left the note, is a reputed ecoterrorist and the daughter of an Argentine industrialist. By...
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