Doan, Lisa.
Summary: "Jack's parents have decided to guide safaris in Africa, much to Jack's chagrin and none of their previous schemes have worked"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Darby Creek 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DOAGilligan, Alison.
Summary: A safari trip to Kenya leads to a search for one of the rarest animals on Earth, in a book where the reader determines the path and ending of the story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chooseco 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC GILDoan, Lisa.
Summary: Jack Berenson's parents thought up another get-rich-quick scheme...in Kenya! Now an animal attack is about to send Jack up a tree?alone, with limited supplies. Can Jack outsmart the wild life and survive?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publishing Group 2014
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Verde, Susan
Summary: With its wide sky and warm earth, Princess Gie Gie's kingdom is a beautiful land. But clean drinking water is scarce in her small African village. And try as she might, Gie Gie cannot bring the water closer; she cannot make it run clearer. Every morning, she rises before the sun to make the long journey to the well. Instead of a crown, she wears a heavy pot on her head to collect the water....
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016
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Summary: "Written in the voice of Mother Africa, who speaks to her children--human beings--this stunning picture book thrums with the love between mother and child as it celebrates humanity's common roots. Before words or tools or fire, Mother Africa's caves sheltered us and her forests fed us. She could not protect us from all dangers, but, like mothers everywhere, she gave her children all she could...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Astra Young Readers, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2023
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Summary: "Iris Johansen introduces a new kickass female protagonist, Alisa Flynn, a CIA agent who may be willing to go rogue if it means catching the most heartless band of criminals she's ever encountered. Alisa is aided by mysterious billionaire-genius-inventor Gabe Korgan and recurring character Margaret Douglas, an animal whisperer who brings along her beloved dog Juno to fight alongside them. Alisa...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing Large Print 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2002
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC CONPalmer, Matthew
Summary: A disgraceed former State Department star starts over at a Congo m ining facility that's being oppressed by corrupt interests.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALAtinuke
Summary: "Anna Hibiscus is back from Canada, and so much has changed while she was away! Double and Trouble have learned to run, and Grandfather has gotten older, too. One of the chickens has laid eggs, and Anna hatches her very own chick--Snow White!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ATIHunter, Erin
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Series HunterMbue, Imbolo
Summary: "'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MBUBarnes, Steven.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aspect/Warner Books 2002
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Summary: "'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Mbue 2020Applegate, Katherine
Summary: Ivan has been happily living in a wildlife sanctuary, with his friend Ruby next door in the elephant enclosure, frequent visits from his canine friend Bob, and his mate Kinyani by his side. And in the happiest turn of all, Ivan and Kinyani have welcomed a set of twins to their family!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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Summary: In the African village of Kosawa, people live in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean up and financial reparations to the villagers are made, and ignored. The country's government, led by a corrupt, brazen dictator, exists to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MBULawrence, Patrice
Summary: "When Paloma goes to visit her family in Trinidad, she doesn't feel that she fits in. But Tante Janet has a story to tell her: An ancient story of warrior queens and talking drums, of treasures and tales that span thousands of years... Join Tante Janet and her inquisitive niece as they share the story of how her family came to the Caribbean, through the dark days of colonization and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Cat Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LAWBurroughs, Edgar Rice
Summary: Born to noble parents marooned on the savage West African coast, the young lord Greystoke is orphaned in his first year of life. Named Tarzan by the great apes that raise him, he must learn the laws of the jungle to survive. He quickly matches the beasts around him in strength and agility, yet understands that he is different from them. In combining higher intelligence with his physical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION BURIsadora, Rachel
Summary: In a village on the African plains, a little girl stalls bedtime by saying good night to various animals and objects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ISAJohansen, Iris
Summary: Alisa is aided by mysterious billionaire-genius-inventor Gabe Korgan and recurring character Margaret Douglas, an animal whisperer who brings along her beloved dog Juno to fight alongside them. Alisa is determined to rescue school children kidnapped from their African boarding school, in a ripped-from-the-headlines story. But Alisa is hiding her personal stake in the rescue from Korgan, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JOHAkpan, Uwem.
Summary: These stories are told from the viewpoints of the children of Africa. Akpan's ability to capture a child's imagination and his skillful portrayal of the situation they endure is nothing short of transcendent. His stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2008
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Summary: In Conrad's haunting tale, Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the enigmatic Kurtz. Travelling to the heart of the African continent, he discovers how Kurtz has gained his position of power and influence over the local people. Marlow's struggle to fathom his experience involves him in a radical questioning of not only his own nature and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1993
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Summary: A white American woman discovers an illegitimate half-sister who is half-black and who was abandoned in Africa by their mother. She brings her to the United States, but the woman is alienated by the soft living and returns to her village. By the author of Lady Moses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROYApplegate, Katherine
Summary: 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 savanna to Ivan and Bob.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC APPLatham, Irene
Summary: Chronicles the story of the last Africans brought illegally to the United States on the Clotilda in 1860.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2022