Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Where the wild hearts are volume 1
Formats
Description
"Love runs wild at the Sagebrush Flats Zoo, where a motley crew of big-hearted animals helps the most unlikely couples find love. When Katie Underwood discovers a litter of newborn cougar cubs, the last person she expects to come to the rescue is her former crush--and high school nemesis--Bowie Wilson ... As a single father and owner of a cash-strapped zoo, Bowie struggles to balance budgets while raising his pre-teen daughter and a host of rascally...
Author
Description
When Balthazar Jones is tasked with setting up an elaborate menagerie within the Tower of London's walls to house the many exotic animals gifted to the Queen, life at the Tower gets all the more interesting. Penguins escape, giraffes are stolen, and the Komodo dragon sends innocent people running for their lives. Balthazar is in charge and things are not exactly running smoothly....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Formats
Description
When Lucy, a pregnant giant anteater from Belize, is blamed for killing the man found dead in her pen, California zookeeper Teddy Bentley races against time to find the real culprit before Lucy is shipped to another zoo, but her investigation is undermined by another murder, a threatened eviction, a father on the lam, and a socialite mother out to destroy her romance with Sheriff Joe Rejas.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"The Elephant of Belfast chronicles a seven-month period of time when the Germans unexpectedly bombed Belfast, Northern Ireland, also known as the Belfast Blitz. Through the lens of the Bellevue Zoo and one of its zookeepers, twenty-year-old Hettie Quin, the novel animates how the war irrevocably impacted-and shaped the lives of Belfast's citizens in broad and intimate ways. In October 1940, Hettie meets Violet, a three-year-old Asian elephant arriving...
Author
Series
My weirder school volume 1
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
A.J. and his fellow third-graders from Ella Mentry School, including new student Alexia, go on a field trip to the zoo, where they meet a very strange zookeeper.
Author
Series
Where's Walrus? volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011
Description
In this wordless picture book, follow Walrus on a happy-go-lucky spree through the big city, as he tries on different hats to disguise himself from the chasing zookeeper.
Author
Series
Appears on list
Description
"Amos McGee, a friendly zookeeper, always made time to visit his good friends: the elephant, the tortoise, the penguin, the rhinoceros, and the owl. But one day--'Ah-choo!'--he woke with the sniffles and the sneezes. Though he didn't make it into the zoo that day, he did receive some unexpected guests."--Dust jacket.
Author
Series
Dinosaur sanctuary volume 2
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"WHAT REALLY HAPPENED... When dinosaurs were found to have survived to modern times, people were enthralled--until a catastrophic incident drove dino-mania to extinction. When Kaidou, who was there to witness it, opens up about what happened, the rookie dinokeeper Suma Suzume learns more about the disaster--and her coworker--than she ever expected. But that's far from the only thing on her mind. Whether it's raising a baby Troodon or throwing a birthday...
Author
Series
Where the wild hearts are volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Love runs wild at the Sagebrush Flats Zoo...
In a bid to revitalize his career, bestselling author Magnus Gray has come to Sagebrush Flats to write about the local zoo's latest rescue-an orphaned baby polar bear. But Magnus dreads the drama of small towns and is bullishly determined to keep to himself.
June Winters is a people person, and delights in welcoming Magnus to Sagebrush Flats, though it seems unlikely she can get the handsome stranger to...
Author
Appears on these lists
Description
"'Few true friends have I known and two were giraffes . . . ' Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling an unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. It's 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"From the bestselling author of Bird Box, a novella collection in which every story reveals a sinister secret about a mysterious small town. The town of Goblin seems like any other ordinary small town. But with the master storyteller Josh Malerman as your tour guide, you'll discover the secrets that hide behind the town's closed doors. These six novellas tell the story of a place where the rain is always falling, nighttime is always near, and your...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"1940. BRITAIN IS AT WAR WITH NAZI GERMANY. Eleven-year-old Eric practically lives at the London Zoo. And there's one animal in particular he loves to spend time with: Gertrude the gorilla. But with German bombs raining over London, Eric realizes Gertrude is in terrible danger, and together with his Uncle Sid, a keeper at the zoo, the three go on the run. But while hiding out at the seaside, they uncover a top-secret Nazi plot..."--Page [2] of cover....
Author
Series
Desmond Cole ghost patrol volume 4
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Desmond and Andres face a zombie during a school field trip to the zoo.
Author
Publisher
NHLA READS-TO-GO
Pub. Date
2024]
Appears on list
Description
Please contact your library to reserve this kit. "Few true friends have I known and two were giraffes...' Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. It's 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously...
17) At the Zoo
Series
Publisher
Campbell Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Join Zookeeper Hu as he searches for a cheeky monkey in Hide and Seek Stories: At The Zoo. Slide the pages to find where the monkey is hiding and meet lots of other wild animals.