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Former beauty queen and fledgling private investigator Madeline Maclin has married her best friend, Jerry Fairweather, and settled into his old house in the small town of Celosia, North Carolina. Jerry seems to have given up his cons and schemes but not his phony séances.
Then Amelia Lever, an unpopular teacher at Celosia Elementary School, dies mysteriously. Convinced hers is not a natural death, Maddy starts to investigate.
And then comes Maddy's...
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"'Few true friends have I known and two were giraffes . . . ' Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling an unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. It's 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the...
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Lucy, a giant anteater from Belize who now resides in a California zoo, is with child...er, with baby anteater. Her zookeeper, Teddy Bentley, loves her job, loves Lucy, and is looking forward to the big day when Lucy gives birth. So Teddy is unhappy when a dead man is found in the anteater's enclosure and the zoo manager, blaming the animal for the death, wants to ship her to another zoo. In order to save her charge, Teddy sets about investigating...
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 x 27 cm.
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English
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Walrus has escaped from the zoo and stays one step ahead of the zookeeper by disguising himself among firefighters, businessmen, high-stepping dancers, and other groups of people. Told without words.
8) Zooman Sam
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Four-year-old Sam's appearance as a zookeeper at his nursery school's Future Job Day leads him to a number of exciting activities and discoveries, including reading.
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Meg Langslow is pulled into another mystery when she discovers a group of penguins and a dead body hiding in her father's basement, and although Meg's dad can explain why the penguins are there, the dead man is another story, and Meg sets out to clear her father's name and discover the victim's identity.
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"When zookeeper Theodora 'Teddy' Bentley fishes the body of Koala Kate out of Gunn Landing Harbor, she discovers that her fellow zookeeper didn't drown; she was strangled. The clues to Koala Kate's killer implicate other animal keepers at Gunn Zoo, including Outback Bill, marsupial keeper and Kate's Aussie ex-boyfriend; and Robin Chase, the big cat keeper who's got it in for Teddy. Also displaying suspicious behavior are several 'liveaboarders' at...
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 304 p. : map ; 22 cm.
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English
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When Balthazar Jones is tasked with setting up an elaborate menagerie within the Tower of London's walls to house the many exotic animals gifted to the Queen, life at the Tower gets all the more interesting. Penguins escape, giraffes are stolen, and the Komodo dragon sends innocent people running for their lives. Balthazar is in charge and things are not exactly running smoothly. Then his wife Hebe decides to leave him and his beloved tortoise "runs"...
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"The Elephant of Belfast chronicles a seven-month period of time when the Germans unexpectedly bombed Belfast, Northern Ireland, also known as the Belfast Blitz. Through the lens of the Bellevue Zoo and one of its zookeepers, twenty-year-old Hettie Quin, the novel animates how the war irrevocably impacted-and shaped the lives of Belfast's citizens in broad and intimate ways. In October 1940, Hettie meets Violet, a three-year-old Asian elephant arriving...
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"Amos McGee, a friendly zookeeper, always made time to visit his good friends: the elephant, the tortoise, the penguin, the rhinoceros, and the owl. But one day--'Ah-choo!'--he woke with the sniffles and the sneezes. Though he didn't make it into the zoo that day, he did receive some unexpected guests."--Dust jacket.
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