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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,...

With a million dollars at stake, Hitpig's next job is to return an elephant to her maniacal Las Vegas show owner. But when the mission goes sideways, Hitpig must realize that no amount of money is worth losing his newfound friends.

"The big box has arrived, and Elena is so excited! Tent parts fly everywhere as she empties the contents and dives right in. This job will be done in no time! Ga-Bunk! Oops! Elena forgot the poles! Now it's under control . . . Ga-Bam! A little tug here might help . . . Ga-Boing! Now Elena is stomping mad! What's that her bird buddy's saying? Something about that folded paper that came with the tent? In a charmingly comic follow-up to Elena Rides,...

A boy and his best elephant friend navigate the many ways you can help a pal who is feeling sad.

On the day he retires, Inspector Ashwin Chopra inherits two unexpected mysteries. The first is the case of a drowned boy, whose suspicious death no one seems to want solved. And the second is a baby elephant. As his search for clues takes him across the teeming city of Mumbai, from its grand high rises to its sprawling slums and deep into its murky underworld, Chopra begins to suspect that there may be a great deal more to both his last case and...

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.

"[A] bind-up of five Elephant & Piggie adventures to spark early-readers' imaginations"--Provided by publisher.

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?

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.

Piggie ruins a perfectly good day by telling Gerald the elephant that she is going, sending him into a panic.