animal sanctuaries

Text and photographs look at the unlikely friendship between a lion, a tiger, and a bear who were abused and neglected and where brought to live at Noah's Ark Animal Sanctuary.

Thirteen-year-old Sam and her father scrape by caring for rescued elephants until an offer comes through that may not only save the sanctuary, it may also restore an extinct species. Includes facts about woolly mammoths and cloning.

Anju, an elephant who was stolen from the Indonesian island of Sumatra and sold to an American circus, spends fifty years of her life in captivity, hating being an elephant, until her caretaker, Vincent, finally takes her someplace where she can be happy once more.

"Follows the true story of Tony, an eight-year-old boy whose family owns an elephant sanctuary in Thailand and the relationship he forges with two young elephants that he rescued from an urban setting"--OCLC.

"Elephants were born to move, and their home range can be thousands of square miles. But in the Toronto zoo, Toka, Thika, and Iringa shared a tiny outdoor space of less than an acre of mostly barren, hard earth. Weakened by the cold winters and the lack of physical activity, the elephants were in desperate need of a change; otherwise they could not expect to live beyond middle age. This is the true story of their journey."--Back cover.

After visiting a great ape sanctuary, Marty and her friends set out to raise the money to "adopt" a chimpanzee by organizing a talent show at school and starting a pet-sitting business in Marty's basement--which soon gets out of hand.

Offers a behind the scenes look at animal sanctuaries and the care the animals receive there.

Nancy, George, and Bess volunteer for some work at the River Heights Animal Protection Center only to find themselves looking for escaped circus tigers.