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Youth Services staff has created special resources to help facilitate a fun storytime experience in your home. We’ve outlined early literacy activities to help keep kids reading, singing, playing, writing, and talking every day.
82) Poo in the zoo
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Poo in the zoo volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Bob McGrew, the head keeper at the zoo, loves his job -- except when he has to clean up the poo! One day, the iguana leaves behind something that catches the attention of the entire town -- and a poo museum owner -- and ends up making Bob's messy job a lot easier!
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Provides simple information about the anatomy, habits, diet, and young of giraffes and what life is like for them in a zoo.
Proporciona información simple acerca de la anatomía, hábitos, dieta, y los jóvenes de las jirafas y lo que la vida es como para ellos en un zoológico.
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Ace Ventura Jr. is a 12-year-old who promises to try and be normal. But, what's normal for him is finding missing mutts, kidnapped kitties or gone gators. Like father, like son, it's in his nature to be a pet defective--detective! So, when a baby panda is stolen from the zoo and Ace's mom becomes the number one suspect, our young hero sets out to clear the family name. Junior teams with up with Laura, his adventurous next door neighbor, and A-Plus,...
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English
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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.
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Español
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Mientras que un gran incendio forestal rugia a lo largo del Funny River en el Kenai National Wildlife Refuge en Alaska, los bomberos se apresuraron al rescate. Cuando encontraron a cinco cachorros de lobos de tres semanas de nacidos en apuros, se pusieron en accion para salvar a toda la camada. Sin los padres lobos para ayudar, los cuidadores de animales del zoologico y los veterinarios en el Alaska Zoo (Zoologico de Alaska) se aseguragon que los...
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English
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A popular author of fiction and nonfiction works for children, Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen can often be found in schools sharing her beloved works with children all across the country. With its clever rhymes and cute-creepy storyline, Quackenstein Hatches a Family is the irresistible tale of a very special duck. Quackenstein has no family or friends to play with until he finds an egg. But when it hatches, it's not exactly what Quackenstein was expecting!...
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Bindi wildlife adventures volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Bindi has her birthday party at the zoo, and after one of her guests decides to take home one of the zoo's water dragons, it's up to her, her brother, and a green-winged macaw to find the water dragon before it's too late.
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English
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Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.
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Secret Zoo volume 4
Language
English
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"On Halloween night, the scouts, along with their Descender allies, must battle terrifying sasquatches at their own elementary school. Little do they know, the sasquatches are merely the bait to a trap. DeGraff captures three of the Descenders and drags them into a frightening, off-limits sector of The Secret Zoo. Meanwhile, Noah and his friends must protect two of their animal allies from police officers who are convinced that they are dangerous...
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Incredibly dead pets of Rex Dexter volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Cursed by an old carnival game, sixth-grader Rex Dexter uses his new ability to communicate with dead animals to investigate the mysterious deaths of endangered zoo animals.
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"With stunning photographs and exemplary narrative nonfiction, the Sibert Honor-winning creators of The Elephant Scientist, Caitlin O'Connell and Timothy Rodwell, give readers a heartwarming insider's look into a day in the life of a zoo curator and the meaningful bonds that she forms with her menagerie."--
98) Hairy Hezekiah
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A lonely Bactrian camel sets out in search of a friend, but after being threatened, laughed at, and insulted by other animals at the zoo and unknowingly wreaking havoc in the English countryside, he finds a real home and true friend at a safari park.
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English
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Rafe Khatchadorian is horrified that because of a missed science assignment he has to go to summer school; but instead of three weeks in a school room, he finds himself as a volunteer at BushyTail animal refuge, which is really hard, smelly work--and somehow he needs to use the experience (and the help of a girl he meets there) to produce a first-class science report.
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Follow Central Park Zoo animals, including, Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe and Gloria the Hippo, along with the psychotic penguins, the monkeys, and the lemur leaders as they unexpectedly are now stranded in the middle of Africa. While Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria are rather happy with their new environment, they quickly realize that it's not all that it seems. Meanwhile, the penguins attempt to repair the plane that they accidentally...
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