Messner, Kate
Summary: This time Ranger, the time-traveling Golden retriever, finds himself in San Francisco in the middle of the great 1906 earthquake, and his mission is obviously to get a young Chinese immigrant, Lily Chen, to safety, but as they make their way through the ruined and burning city Ranger finds that he must also accomplish something else--finding Lily, who was sold as a servant by her parents, a new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2017
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Summary: When the mysterious first aid kit takes golden retriever Ranger to New Orleans shortly before Hurricane Katrina hits, he finds himself helping Clare Porter and her grandmother, who are waiting for Clare's father at their home in the Lower Ninth Ward--and when the levees break and Clare is separated from Nana, Ranger must somehow get her to the relative safety of the Superdome, and reunite her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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Summary: Ranger, a time-traveling golden retriever with search-and-rescue training, heads to Normandy on the morning of the D-Day invasion where he meets Leo, a Jewish boy who is hiding with a local farmer, and Walt, a young American soldier fighting to free France from the Nazis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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Summary: This time Ranger, the time-travelling Golden retriever finds himself transported to the deck of the USS Arizona on December 7, 1941, where he rescues the young sailor Ben Hansen who is badly burned when the ship explodes--and there is a Japanese-American boy and girl in a rowboat who also need his help to find their father amid the chaos of the attack.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2020
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Summary: Ranger, the time-traveling golden retriever, has landed in Viking age Iceland, where he helps a girl named Helga journey through the ash and smoke of an erupting volcano to find her father and bring him home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2017
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Summary: This time the mysterious box transports the golden retriever Ranger back to the shipyards of Belfast in 1912, where a ship is being prepared for her maiden voyage, and when he saves young Patrick Murphy from being crushed by falling boards, Ranger expects to be transported home; when he is not, he knows that somehow his job is not finished--but then, Ranger has never heard of the Titanic, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2019
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Summary: Ranger, a golden retriever, could have been a great search-and-rescue-dog except for the squirrels--but one day he unearths a mysterious box and finds himself transported back to the year 1850 where his faithful service is really needed by a family traveling west along the Oregon Trail.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015
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Summary: The mysterious box that Ranger the golden retriever found in the garden transports him back to first century Rome, where he must rescue Marcus, a young servant boy, and Quintus, a volunteer gladiator, from the brutal world of the Colosseum.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015
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Summary: Ranger the time-traveling Golden retriever was trained for search-and-rescue and even though he did not pass the tests he has used his training on his many trips to help people caught up in disasters; now he has arrived at the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001 just as the first plane hits, and he must rescue fifth-graders Risha and Max who are trapped in the wreckage,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2020
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Summary: This time the mysterious box that Ranger the Golden retriever found transports him to a Maryland plantation before the Civil War, where he must help a young house slave named Sarah and her younger brother Jesse find their way to the underground railroad and North to freedom, before Jesse is sold to a plantation further South.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016
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Summary: Ranger the time-travelling Golden retriever and young Isaac Pope come together in 1776 during Washington's retreat after the Battle of Long Island, and Ranger stays with Isaac while he slowly recovers from Smallpox--but Ranger's real mission comes later when Isaac is sent to spy out the Hessian troops' intentions before the Battle of Trenton.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2019
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Summary: Once again the mysterious box takes the golden retriever Ranger back in time, and he finds himself on Robert Falcon Scott's ship, the Terra Nova, headed for Antarctica, where his mission is to save Jack Nin, a Chinese-Maori stowaway from New Zealand, from the blizzards, unstable ice, and the other hazards that lie ahead for the doomed expedition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MESMcHale, Brenda
Summary: Understanding climate change is increasingly important as Earth gets warmer. Wind is another side effect of Earth's changing climate and atmosphere that can be harmful. It affects crops, people's homes, and animal habitats.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.55 MCHFlanagan, John (John Anthony)
Summary: "When Maddie and Will get a message that dire wolves--huge misshapen changelings, much larger than regular wolves--have been marauding and attacking through the hills and valleys of Celtica, the Rangers are sent on a mission to unravel just who or what is behind these dangerous creatures. Will isn't anxious to return to Celtica, especially approaching the Rift. And as they travel, Maddie must...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FLAMartin, Louise
Summary: Discusses the giant panda, why it is an endangered species, and efforts by the World Wildlife Fund and other people to save the giant panda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rourke Enterprises 1988
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Summary: There's no question that storms like hurricanes have gotten stronger around the world in recent years. Many places have more rain at other times too. An increasingly wet climate in some places is yet another side effect of climate change.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids 2022
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Summary: When people talk about global warming, they mean climate change. Scientists predict that Earth will continue to get warmer if people don't make serious changes to protect Earth. Reducing the use of fossil fuels is one way that young readers are introduced to slowing climate change in this simple book about the warming of Earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids 2022
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Summary: Forensics expert Maggie Gardiner is swept up in a dangerous web of lies when detective Jack Renner's investigation into a university student's death violently converges with a suspicious overdose case being overseen by Maggie's homicide detective ex.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2020
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Summary: Water is essential for all life on Earth. From irrigating fields to drinking it ourselves, water is the one thing that separates Earth from other uninhabitable planets. But what happens when water dries up? This book provides a simple introduction to climate change and one of its consequences: drier places are getting drier, and places that weren't dry before are also getting drier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.57 MCHIde, Joe
Summary: "Isaiah Quintabe's first love, Grace, has been kidnapped by his sworn enemy, the professional hitman Skip Hanson. Skip is savage and psychotic, determined to punish Isaiah for sending him to prison and destroying his life. Isaiah and his sometimes partner, ex-hustler Juanell Dodson, together again, must track scant clues through L.A.'s perilous landscape as Grace's predicament grows more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Summary: "Isaiah Quintabe is up in a hospital bed, recovering from injuries sustained in his last case. As he recovers, five hundred miles from East Long Beach, he's unaware that Grace has been abducted by professional hitman Skip Hanson. Skip is savage and psychotic, determined to punish Isaiah for sending him to prison and destroying his life. Now, Isaiah and his sometimes partner, ex-hustler Juanell...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Summary: Crime-solving cowboys Gus 'Old Red' and Otto 'Big Red' Amlingmeyer are wandering around San Francisco when they stumble onto another mystery to be solved: the death of their acquaintance, Dr. Chan. It turns out that no one wants this mystery solved, but that doesn't stop the brothers from riling up the locals with their heavy-handed investigations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media Inc. 2008
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Summary: Beautiful coral reefs are teeming with life that's not found anywhere else on the planet. This diverse and fascinating biome is home to thousands of fish, octopi, sea slugs, and sharks. Readers learn about these creatures and many more in this science-rich title that uses age-appropriate language and fun fact boxes to discuss adaptation and survival, ecosystem balance, interdependency, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2016
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Summary: "From his corner office on the 44th floor of the Bank of America Tower, Tom Smith, global managing director for security, could see the Statue of Liberty, Battery Park--and a ravening zombie horde. Officially, Smith was paid to preserve the lives and fortunes of employees, billionaires and other clients. And with an implacable virus that turned the infected into ravenous zombies tearing through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2018