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Series
Tiger Days volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Beautiful black-and-white illustrations throughout.When nine-year-old Tiger Days visits her grandmother at Willowgate House she never knows what might happen? new friends to meet, animals to rescue and problems to solve. No day is ever dull for Tiger !In the first Tiger Days story, Tiger must help look after an orphaned baby warthog who is an escape artist. She will also need lots of Tiger Bravery to discover what, or who, is making a strange sound...
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Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2018
Description
The wolf has lost nearly everything on his journey to the zoo, including an eye and his beloved pack. The boy too has lost much and seen many terrible things. They stand eye to eye on either side of the wolf's enclosure and, slowly, each makes his own extraordinary story known to the other...
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Publisher
Pavilion Children's
Pub. Date
2018
Description
In this first book in the Molly Mischief series, Molly wants a pet - a big pet. But Molly being Molly, mischief is never far away! Molly decides that an elephant would be her perfect pet- so she brings one home from the wildlife park? but it?s a bit too big for her house? the tiger is too fierce? the giraffe too tall? and the polar bear gets too hot. Will Molly ever find the perfect pet?.
4) Fox 8
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Description
**Please note that this is a short illustrated work which will work best on a colour device** An enchanting and darkly comic fable of human greed and nature, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo, exquisitely illustrated by Chelsea Cardinal Fox 8 has always been curious, and a bit of a daydreamer. And, by hiding outside houses at dusk and listening to children's bedtime stories, he has learned to speak 'Yuman'. The power...
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Pub. Date
2016
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Kit has been projecting into other species for seven years. Longer than anyone else at ShenCorp. Longer than any of the scientists thought possible. But lately she has the feeling that when she jumps she isn't alone? Since she was twelve, Kit has been a phenomenaut, her consciousness projected into the bodies of lab-grown animals for the purpose of research. Kit experiences a multitude of other lives ? fighting and fleeing, predator and prey ? always...
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Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to the natural world. Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best-loved writing along with new pieces covering a thrilling range of subjects. There are essays here on headaches, on catching swans, on hunting mushrooms, on 20th-century spies, on numinous experiences and high-rise buildings, on nests and wild...
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Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2016
Description
*AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 2 FACT NOT FICTION BOOKCLUB* 'I was hoping against hope that the penguin would survive because as of that instant he had a name, and with his name came the beginning of a bond which would last a life-time' Tom Michell is in his roaring twenties: single, free-spirited and seeking adventure. He has a plane ticket to South America, a teaching position in a prestigious Argentine boarding school, and endless summer holidays. He even...
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Series
Holly Webb Animal Stories volume 11
Publisher
Stripes Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Description
She wishes she could spend all her time with her gorgeous puppy, but she has to rehearse for her school Christmas play. Meanwhile, Oscar feels lonely and neglected especially with Christmas just around the corner. Why doesn't Hannah want to be with him any more? From the best-selling author Holly Webb comes another moving animal story.
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***Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014*** Rosemary's young, just at college, and she's decided not to tell anyone a thing about her family. So we're not going to tell you too much either: you'll have to find out for yourselves, round about page 77, what it is that makes her unhappy family unlike any other. Rosemary is now an only child, but she used to have a sister the same age as her, and an older brother. Both are now gone - vanished from...
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Pub. Date
2019
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So he decides to set up his own business walking everyone else?s. This works better than he could have imagined when he finds he can talk to the dogs and understand what they say to him! The dogs lead him to a terrible puppy farm hidden in the wood by Arlington Wherewithall, a famous TV star and owner of a pet food company, the richest man in their area. He knows nobody will believe him, so it is down to Walker and the dogs to stop the farm and save...
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Pub. Date
2017
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Little persuasion was needed for Mike to take Peter Woodhouse to the airbase and over time he became the mascot of the American squad, flying with them whenever their Mosquitoes took to the skies. When their plane is shot down over Holland both Mike, and Peter Woodhouse are feared lost. But unknown to their loved ones at home, Mike, and Peter Woodhouse survived the crash. Taken in by the Dutch resistance and with the help of Ubi, a German officer,...
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Alfie Onion has just set off on a great adventure ? but only to carry his brother?s luggage. It?s his elder brother, Magnifico Onion, who?s destined to win their family a Happily Ever After. But when it turns out Magnifico isn?t half the hero he?s cracked up to be, it falls to Alfie to save the day - with a little help from his loyal dog, a talking horse and a couple of meddling magpies.
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The whales of Bathsheba?s pod live for the hunt. Led by the formidable Captain Alexandra, they fight a never-ending war against men. So it has been, so it shall always be. Then the whales attack a man ship, and instead of easy prey they find the trail of a myth, a monster, perhaps the devil himself ? With their relentless Captain leading the chase, they embark on the final hunt, one that will forever change the worlds of whales and men.
14) Life of Pi
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After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan - and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary and best-loved works of fiction in recent years. Yann Martel's Life of Pi is a transformative novel, a dazzling work of imagination...
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