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Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A group of apes are kidnapped from a language laboratory and subsequently cast on a reality television show that calls into question scientific assumptions about common DNA that is shared by apes and people.
Author
Series
Mike Bowditch volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Language
English
Description
Investigating the senseless slaughter of five moose found on the estate of a wealthy animal rights activist, Game Warden Mike Bowditch finds the controversial case turning more sinister when the activist's daughter is killed in a suspicious accident, a situation that compels Bowditch to risk everything he cares about.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
"After a tragic accident maims her laboratory assistant, Dr. Sara Pollard's career as a primate behaviorist lies in ruins. With nothing left to lose, Pollard-descendant of a Nantucket captain whose ship was sunk by a rogue whale-accepts an offer to join anti-whaling activists on a round-the-world racing yacht as the resident scientist. The plan is to sail from Argentina to the stormy Antarctic Sea. There they'll shadow, harass, and expose the Japanese...
5) Whiteout
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
A missing canister containing a deadly virus forms the center of a storm that traps Stanley Oxenford, director of a medical research firm, and a violent trio of thugs in a remote house during a Christmas Eve blizzard.
Author
Series
Publisher
Mason Crest
Pub. Date
c2017
Physical Desc
112 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines the facts about animal rights, with information about arguments and opinions from around the globe. Includes chapters on animals raised for food, animals and medical research, and animals and entertainment.
7) Animalkind: remarkable discoveries about animals and revolutionary new ways to show them compassion
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 294 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the co-founder and president of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, and bestselling author Gene Stone comes Animalkind, a book that offers both a tour of the wonderful world of animals and a guide to simple ways in which we can reduce the harm we cause them in our everyday lives.
Author
Series
Mermaid tales volume 6
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
81 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Of all the creatures in the ocean, sea horses are Echo Reef's favorite. They're sweet and gentle and they glide through the water so gracefully. When Echo discovers that Rocky Ridge, one of her Trident Academy classmates, has his own pet sea horse, she wants one right away. Not everyone agrees sea horses should be pets, however. Perhaps they are happiest when swimming freely. But Echo thinks that if Rocky can make a sea horse happy, she can too! Can't...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Funny Farm is an inspiring and moving memoir of the author's turbulent life with 600 rescue animals Laurie Zaleski never aspired to run an animal rescue; that was her mother Annie's dream. But from girlhood, Laurie was determined to make the dream come true. Thirty years later as a successful businesswoman, she did it, buying a 15-acre farm deep in the Pinelands of South Jersey. She was planning to relocate Annie and her caravan of ragtag rescues-horses...
11) A rare breed of love: the true story of Baby and the mission she inspired to help dogs everywhere
Author
Publisher
Fireside
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Fireside hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 201 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shares the story of a three-legged poodle whose rescue from a puppy mill sparked the author's cross-country rallies to raise awareness and call for reforms to animal protection laws, in a volume complemented by photos of celebrities and their animal companions.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
xiv, 178 pages : illustrations (some color), photographs, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents the life of the animal activist, describing his work in nineteenth-century New York to bring attention to the cruel treatment of animals, the intial opposition that he faced from the public, and his founding of the ASPCA in 1866.