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Jenny Willson finds more than she bargains for when she travels to Namibia to save local wildlife from poachers.
Parks Canada warden Jenny Willson has left Canada to join an American colleague on a secondment to assist Namibian authorities trying to stem the loss of the country's rhinos to illegal hunting. But the plan takes a dramatic turn when Willson finds herself in the crosshairs of a conspiracy involving wildlife poachers backed by a shadowy...
2) Sunrise
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Sky King Ranch volume 1
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English
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"A decade after leaving his family's bush pilot operation to become a Pararescue Jumper, Dodge Kingston is back home in Alaska. He hadn't counted on meeting up again with Echo, a girl with a spirit as free as the sky. When she goes missing, he hopes all her skills will keep her safe until he can reach her-and that she'll accept his help when he does"--
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Run with the wolf volume 2
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English
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agent Dylan Powers is on a mission in Silver Town to catch four men hunting illegally. With this heightened wolf senses, he's on their trail, but the hunters know he's coming. Dylan is nearly drowned and left to die, but he's rescued by local ski lodge owner Roxie Wolff. Things start to heat up between them when she takes him into her home to help him recover. Roxie and Dylan team up with the Silver Town sheriff's department...
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Walt Disney Home Entertainment
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English
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The Rescuers down under: The world's bravest mice answer a call for help to come to the aid of a young boy in Australia's Outback. Together they struggle to save an eagle from a ruthless poacher.
The Rescuers: Two brave mice try to rescue a kidnapped young orphan from the hilariously evil Madame Medusa, who is obsessed with getting her hands on the world's largest diamond!
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A pinch of magic volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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When their sister Charlie is kidnapped by poachers, Betty, Fliss, and their newfound friend Willow embark on a high seas adventure involving ghosts, fierce pirates and a journey to a mythic island that only exists in legend.
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If the man you love went missing, how far would you go to find him? Someone is watching Piper, and she thinks she knows who it is: the bushman. But there's more than one danger lurking in this temperate rainforest. Poachers are taking down old growth trees and jeopardizing plans for a park, a project Piper is passionate about. When she pressures her husband, Ben, a natural resources officer, to identify the culprits, he takes his drone into the wilderness...
7) The good egg
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Lumberjanes (Chapter books) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Ripley, the smallest, youngest, most animal-loving member of the cabin. When Ripley comes across an abandoned egg, shes determined to take care of it until the parent comes back. Unfortunately, her plan is quickly foiled by egg poachers, who steal the egg for their own collection.
8) Dragonhaven
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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When Jake Mendoza, who lives in the Smokehill National Park where his father runs the Makepeace Institute of Integrated Dragon Studies, goes on his first solo overnight in the park, he finds an infant dragon whose mother has been killed by a poacher.
9) Fins
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Sharks Incorporated volume 1
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Roaring Brook Press
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Marine biologist Doc Ford enlists the help of three kids--Luke, Maribel, and Sabina--to tag sharks for his research and help take down poachers targeting Florida's biannual migration of blacktip sharks.
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Gateway, Alberta, 1911. The coming of the railroad to the Canadian Rockies has brought a parade of newcomers to the heavenly Bow Valley, including the poacher Herbie Wishart, who has reinvented himself as a trail guide and teller of tall tales. Herbie becomes outfitter for a fossil-hunting expedition headed by a prominent Washington, D.C., archaeologist. But when an early snowstorm hits and trailside grudges come to a head, the expedition mysteriously...
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The days of slaughtering buffalo are meant to be over, with so pitifully few of them remaining. But with top dollar on offer for their severed heads as trophies, some hunters just can't resist. In Yellowstone Park, Captain Moses Harris and his company of US Cavalry are assigned the job of stopping illegal poachers. Yet, following an apparently motiveless murder at the Mammoth army post, Harris realizes that it is not only the buffalo being threatened...
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Ballantine Books
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"From the prize-winning author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo, a stunning novel about the disappearance of a Sri Lankan nanny and how the most vulnerable people find their voices. "It began with a crunch of leaves and earth. So early, so cold, the branches shone with ice. I'd returned to collect the songbirds. They are worth more than their weight in gold." Yiannis is a poacher, trapping the tiny protected songbirds that stop in Cyprus as they migrate...
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Flanker Press Limited
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English
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"Four best friends. One wrong turn. One hunting shack hidden in the middle of the mountains. To celebrate their graduation from university, best friends Sadie, Julie, Morgan, and Jonah decide to spend a week backcountry hiking in western Newfoundland, tackling a remote thirty-kilometre route through the Long Range Mountains. Zealous, rambunctious, and overconfident, the group embarks on their self-proclaimed "adventure of a lifetime." That is, until...
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Secret explorers volume 8
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DK Publishing
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English
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"Leah the biology expert and Gustavo the history buff are whisked away on a mission to a forest in North Carolina. There, they meet a botanist working to protect the amazing Venus flytrap--an endangered species of plant--from being stolen by poachers and sold for money. It'll take every bit of brainpower, bravery, and expertise that Leah and Gustavo have to stop the poachers and rescue the plants"--
16) Rhinos at recess
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 37
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A Stepping Stone book, Random House Children's Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie to Africa where they must use magic to save a rhino and her baby from poachers"--
17) The unreal and the real: selected stories of Ursula K. Le Guin.Volume 2,Outer space, inner lands
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Distributed to the trade by Consortium
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English
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Presents a selection of many of the author's best known non-realistic stories, including "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," "Semley's Necklace," and "She Unnames Them."
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