zoos

"Venture behind the scenes to uncover the secrets of the . . . animals and army of staff that make up these . . . attractions and vital conservation centers"--Provided by publisher.

Even though the city faces nightly air raids, in 1941 Joseph is sent to London to live with the gruff Mrs F, who teaches the angry boy how to care for the remaining animals in the city zoo, including a mighty silverback gorilla named Adonis.

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 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.

"A bear named Dave is sweeping his cave one day when two slugs, covered in fuzz, emerge from the dust pile and announce that they are 'The Eyebrows of Doom.' Suddenly, Dave feels the urge to do something unkind, so he crashes through a fence at the nearby campsite and eats all of the campers' food and knocks down their tents. The evil Eyebrows then find a young girl named Molly, who smushes her ice cream all over her grandfather. But when the Eyebrows try to disrupt things at the zoo, they get a big surprise"--Provided by publisher.

"When a leopard goes missing at the San Diego Zoo, it's up to Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose to find her!"--Provided by publisher.

Wordless illustrations follow a girl named Lola and her mother as they go to the zoo to see all Lola's favorite animals--during the day. When readers reach the end of the front side of this accordion-folded, single page, they can turn it over a read backwards through Lola's dreams of animals in the night.

"Steve the gorilla, who lives at the city zoo in Rio de Janeiro, escapes one night to look for his friend Antonio the zookeeper, and gets caught up in the merriment of Carnival"--OCLC.

"Hippo isn't happy. But what can he do? A hippopotamus can't leave the zoo. A hippopotamus can't get a job. But a hippopotamister can. And so, with the help of his friend Red Panda, Hippo tries on a few new hats. He makes a great construction worker! There's no better hairsylist! And he's a natural as a chef! But what hippo really needs... is a job where he can be himself"--Dust jacket.

"Zoo takes emergent readers on a trip to the zoo while providing them with a supportive first nonfiction reading experience. Carefully crafted text uses high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references to support emergent readers, making sure they aren't facing too many challenges at once. Zoo includes Tools for Teachers and Caregivers and a Let's Review! question and image, as well as introductory nonfiction features such as labels, a table of contents, words to know, and an index"--Provided by publisher.

Zoe is delighted that her great uncle Horace has brought home two new animals for the Rescue Zoo, a beautiful snow leopard and her fuzzy cub Ali. Even more exciting is the news that soon there will be three snow leopards -- Ali is about to be a big brother!.