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Series
One and only Ivan stories volume 2
Language
English
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Bob sets out on a dangerous journey in search of his long-lost sister with the help of his two best friends, Ivan and Ruby. As a hurricane approaches and time is running out, Bob finds courage he never knew he had and learns the true meaning of friendship and family.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Get Lost In A Series for Chapter Book Readers
NYT - Children’s & Young Adult Series
NYT - Children’s Series
NYT - Middle Grade Paperback
NYT - Children’s & Young Adult Series
NYT - Children’s Series
NYT - Middle Grade Paperback
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Description
Inspired by the true story of a captive silverback gorilla known as Ivan, this novel celebrates the transformative power of unexpected friendships. Having spent twenty-seven years behind the glass walls of his enclosure in a shopping mall, Ivan has grown accustomed to humans watching him. He hardly ever thinks about his life in the jungle. Instead, Ivan occupies himself with television, his friends Stella and Bob, and painting. But when he meets Ruby,...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Description
When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her.
Author
Series
Bravelands. Original series volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"After an act of betrayal rocks the Bravelands, baboon Thorn must find a way to confront treachery in his own troop, while elephant Sky searches for answers and lion Fearless contends with the usurper who conquered his father's pride"--
Author
Series
Elephant and Piggie books volume 25
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Piggie is determined to thank everyone she knows, but Gerald thinks she will forget someone important"--
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"James Patterson and award-winning Zambian writer Ellen Banda-Aaku deliver an unforgettable survival story of a Maasai girl who faces down poachers to find a future among the elephants. Clever, sensitive Jama likes elephants better than people. While her classmates gossip - especially about the new boy, Leku - Jama takes refuge at the watering hole outside her village. There the twelve-year-old Maasai girl befriends a baby elephant she names Mbegu,...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
"Ruby's story picks up a few months after the events of The One and Only Bob. Now living in a wildlife sanctuary, Ruby's caretaker from the elephant orphanage in Africa where she grew up is visiting. Seeing him again brings back a flood of memories both happy and sad of her life before the circus, and she recounts the time she spent in the African savannah to Ivan and Bob"--
Author
Series
Elephant and Piggie books volume 9
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Gerald the elephant is certain that he cannot dance but his friend Piggie convinces him to try.
Author
Language
English
Description
Lonely Cuban-born eleven-year-old Oriol lives in Santa Barbara, California, where she enjoys caring for injured animals, but her budding friendship with Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature, emboldens Oriol, an aspiring writer, to open up and create a world of words for herself.
Author
Series
Elephant and Piggie books volume 17
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When Piggie plays her new trumpet for Gerald, the elephant decides he must be honest in his response.
12) Blood and bone
Author
Series
Bravelands. Original series volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A new Great Father now rules over the animals of Bravelands, but he is not what he seems, and unless the elephant Sky, the baboon Thorn, and the lion Fearless can fight his lies and unite the animals of the plains, the balance of Bravelands may be destroyed forever"--
Author
Series
Elephant and Piggie books volume 15
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Gerald the elephant has a big decision to make, but will he make it in time?
Author
Series
Elephant and Piggie books volume 3
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Gerald the elephant discovers that there is something worse than a bird on your head-- two birds on your head! Piggie will try to help her best friend.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When her stepfather leaves and her family loses their home to fire, twelve-year-old Chinese-American Monica, or Mo, struggles with anxiety, but the chance to hunt an elephant ghost -- and the promise of a new friend -- help convince her to live a little more dangerously.
Author
Series
Elephant and Piggie books volume 22
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Piggie tells Gerald she has a surprise for him, but it is not there yet so Gerald must be patient.
Author
Series
Bravelands volume 6
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
At long last, the Great Herd is united against Titan -- now so powerful that even Fearless, who vowed to avenge his father's death, cannot defeat the rogue lion alone. Thorn may have a plan to bring about Titan's downfall, but the animals of Bravelands must decide how much they are willing to risk--and who they are willing to lose.
"With the balance of Bravelands at a breaking point, the Great Herd must risk everything to unite against their common...
Author
Series
Elephant and Piggie books volume 5
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends. Piggie can't wait to show Gerald her brand-new toy. But will an accidentally broken toy accidentally break a friendship?