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Adopted children Australia Tasmania Biography Birthparents India Identification Chimpanzees Tanzania Gombe National Park Juvenile literature Goodall, Jane 1934- Goodall, Jane 1934- Juvenile literature Hobart (Tas.) Biography Intercountry adoption Australia Tasmania Intercountry adoption India Kolkata (India) Biography Primatologists England Biography Juvenile literatureLindsey, Jennifer
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stewart, Tabori & Chang 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599 GOORobbins, Dean
Summary: "Using a unique mix of first-person narrative, hilarious comic panels, and essential facts, Dean Robbins introduces young readers to an scientific trailblazer. The second book in an exciting new nonfiction series, You Are a Star, Jane Goodall focuses on Jane's lifelong mission to understand the chimpanzees and protect the planet. Hatem Aly's spot-on comic illustrations bring this icon to life,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GOOMeltzer, Brad
Summary: Each picture book in this series is a biography of a significant historical figure, told in a simple, conversational, vivacious way, and always focusing on a character trait that makes the person a role model for kids. The heroes are depicted as children throughout, telling their life stories in first-person present tense, which keeps the books playful and accessible to young children. And each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Bio I Am GoodallPaddock, Bonner.
Summary: In this exhilarating and inspirational memoir, the first man with cerebral palsy to climb Mount Kilimanjaro and complete the brutal Ironman competition shares the exhilarating adventure that led to his achievements--redefining our ideas of normal and proving that life is never truly limited for any of us.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PADDOCK, BONNER PADPettit, Jayne.
Summary: A biography of the zoologist focussing on her work with the chimpanzees at the Gombe Stream Reserve in Tanzania.
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Publisher / Publication Date: F. Watts 1999
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB GOODALL PETWinter, Jeanette.
Summary: A brief biography about Jane Goodall.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WINBardhan-Quallen, Sudipta.
Summary: Highlights the life and accomplishments of the well-known English primatologist who was the first scientist to study wild chimpanzees in their natural environment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GOODALL, JANE BARAntin, Evan
Summary: "Star of Animal Planet's Evan Goes Wild and People magazine's "Pet Vet" Dr. Evan Antin takes readers beyond his viral Instagram posts right into the wild world with him. World Wild Vet is an up close and personal look at planet earth, in all its wild glory. But beyond the laugh-out-loud stories and dangerous encounters with some of our planet's most exotic creatures, it is a clarion call to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANTIN, EVAN ANTObama, George Hussein.
Summary: This is a memoir of George Obama, President Obama's Kenyan half brother, who found the inspiration to strive for his goal--to better the lives of his own people--in his elder brother's example.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OBAMA, GEORGE OBABrierley, Saroo
Summary: "The miraculous and triumphant story of a young man who rediscovers not only his childhood life and home...but an identity long-since left behind"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRIERLEY, SAROO BRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B BRIERLEY BRIBrierley, Saroo
Summary: "The miraculous and triumphant story of a young man who rediscovers not only his childhood life and home ... but an identity long-since left behind"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 BRIERLEY, SAROO BRINewsham, Brad.
Summary: The author describes his one-hundred-day journey through the Philippines, India, Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and South America, in search of someone to treat to a free trip to America as part of the fulfillment of a youthful dream.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2000