rescues

"The last thing Jacob Portman saw before the world went dark was a terrible, familiar face. Suddenly, he and Noor are back in the place where everything began, his grandfather's house. Jacob doesn't know how they escaped from V's loop to find themselves in Florida. But he does know one thing for certain Caul has returned. After a narrow getaway from a blood-thirsty hollow, Jacob & Noor reunite with Miss Peregrine and the peculiar children in Devil's Acre. The Acre is being plagued by desolations weather fronts of ash and blood and bone, a terrible portent of Caul's amassing army. Risen from the Library of Souls & more powerful than ever, Caul & his apocalyptic agenda seem unstoppable. Only one hope remains, deliver Noor to the meeting place of the seven prophesied ones. If they can decipher its secret location. Jacob & his friends will face deadly enemies and race through history's most dangerous loops"--OCLC.

Charged by Araluen's King Duncan to covertly rescue the Prince of Gallica from a politically ambitious baron, Will Treaty and his apprentice Maddie take to the road disguised as father and daughter jongleurs.

"When Dr. Martinez and her colleagues established the coalition to stop the madness, spreading environmental awareness through the flock's public air shows, Max knew it could be dangerous. Never in wildest dreams, though, did she imagine that a criminal mastermind would abduct her mother! Now the flock has to team up with the U.S. Navy to rescue Dr. Martinez... and of course, the world!"--Page 4 of cover.

Presents twelve stories of real life rescues, including a mountain climber trapped by an avalanche, a sailor trapped in a sunken ship, and the crew of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship, "The Endurance.".

Drake's friends Mina and Caspar, their dragons, and Worm were trapped in stone by the evil wizard Astrid who has stolen their dragons' powers, but Drake himself was saved from a similar fate by Astrid's sister Hulda; now because of his strong connection with Worm, Drake is able to help his dragon to break free, but to free the others they need the assistance of three other dragons--a lava dragon, a sea dragon, and a wind dragon--and they have to do it before Astrid can steal the powers of even more dragons.

"When a little polar bear cub winds up trapped on an ice flow heading out to sea, his mother knows there's only one place to turn: the Animal Rescue Agency! Dashing Esquire Fox used to organize the world's most elaborate chicken raids -- until the day she encountered Mr. Pepper. Meeting the blustery old rooster changed her heart, convincing her to turn from a life of crime and instead form the Animal Rescue Agency, which masterminds rescue operations across the gloves. Esquire and her unlikely chicken business manager coordinate with their far-flung agents to get themselves to the Arctic. In that frozen land they learn what happened to the polar bear cub was no accident -- and saving him will pit them against the scariest predator in the word: a human"--Jacket flap.

Six heroic puppies come to the aid of Captain Turbot when he gets caught in heavy fog at sea and cannot find the lighthouse.

"The bad news? The world is ending. The good news? The Bad Guys are back to save it! Sure, they might have to 'borrow' a rocket. And there might be something nasty in one of the spacesuits. And Mr. Piranha miiiight have eaten too many bean burritos. Surviving this mission may only be one small step for man, but it's one giant leap for the Bad Guys"--Amazon.

When her parents and the other quiet, shy wombats of the Northern Forest are captured by the traitorous, carnivorous Tassie devils, Lola Budge, a talkative, adventure-seeking young wombat, embarks on a rescue mission, joined by a swamp water rat and a baby penguin.

A bold trio of mice help Nicole make a daring rescue of her two charges and the other mice held captive in a dreadful prison.