rescue work

After a storm at sea, Elephant is stranded on an island and is approached by a mouse with a boat, but Elephant's size is too much for the small boat and they need to think of another option.

When terrorists struck the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, heroes stepped up. Follow canine Trakr and his handler James as they locate a survivor in the rubble more than a day after the towers fell. The search and rescue team from Canada was working beside many heroes responding to the attacks on 9/11. Based on the true story and in honor of the K9 and handler team who found the last survivor trapped at Ground Zero. Additional material provides an overview of the events of the day and other stories of canine heroism at Ground Zero.

"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.

"In this action-packed adventure, Marshall the fire pup discovers that even heroes get scared. Luckily, Ryder and whole PAW Patrol team are there to support their friend and help him deal with his fears!"--Provided by publisher.

"The inspirational true story of how 22-year-old Henny Sinding courageously helped smuggle hundreds of Jewish families in occupied Denmark to safety in Sweden during the Holocaust"--Provided by publisher.

Cynthia Cyber has trapped two programmers in the video game Space Racers, which she invented but did not get credit for, and sends a monster racer to destroy them if she does not get a ten million dollar ransom--and it is up to 13-year-old Tyler Morant in his secret identity as The Gamer to rescue them before they are destroyed.

"Suki, a Spinosaurus, has just moved into the river valley and she's finding it hard to make friends. Everyone seems scared of her, but when the river bursts its banks, Suki is suddenly the only one who can help the other dinosaurs"--OCLC.

Text and photographs look at the training and the lifesaving equipment of emergency workers.

"Hurricane season is here and Abby can't help but worry about the danger it may bring to the resort and the dolphins living in the cove. If the wind gets any stronger and the waves grow any wilder, everyone might have to evacuate! That doesn't stop Abby from introducing a new guest named Delaney to her dolphin friends. But when the storm hits and Delaney's dad gets stranded in open water, it's Abby and her dolphin friends to the rescue!"--Back cover.

Chronicles the experiences of forty Americans who hid from the Japanese in the mountains of the central Philippines at the end of World War II and recounts the daring rescue mission attempted by the submarine Crevalle.