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Fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a recent graduate of the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, is hired as governess to three young children who have been raised by wolves and must teach them to behave in a civilized manner quickly, in preparation for a Christmas ball.
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Imagine growing up among wolves, being friends with a panther and a bear, and hunting the most fearsome animal in the wild-the man-killing tiger Shere Khan. These are the stories of Mowgli ""the frog,"" a man-cub raised by wolves, and his journey to adulthood with the help of Baloo the bear, and Bagheera the black panther. The Jungle Book is collections of short stories. Each story begins with a few lines of poetry. The best known of these jungle...
6) Wild
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Flying Eye Books
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This debut picture book by Hawaiian author-illustrator Emily Hughes tells the story of a little girl who has known nothing but nature from birth. Bears taught her to eat, birds to speak, foxes to play; she is unabashedly, irrefutably, irrepressibly "Wild." That is, until one day she meets a new animal that looks oddly like her.
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Wild rescuers volume 1
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Stacy was raised by wolves. She's never needed humans to survive and, from what she sees of humans, they're dangerous and unpredictable. For as long as she can remember, Stacy's pack of six powerful, playful wolves--Addison, Basil, Everest, Noah, Tucker and Wink--have been her only family. Together, Stacy's pack patrols the forest to keep other animals safe, relying on her wits and each wolf's unique abilities to accomplish risky rescue missions....
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2015.
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For fans of Lemony Snicket s Series of Unfortunate Events and Trenton Lee Stewart s Mysterious Benedict Society, here comes the fifth book in the Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, the acclaimed and hilarious Victorian mystery series by Maryrose Wood.Lord Fredrick Ashton may not feel ready to be a father, but with a little Ashton on the way, he s sure about one thing: the wolfish curse on his family must end soon, before the child is born. Penelope...
10) Disney's Tarzan
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Grolier Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
First American edition.
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After being raised in the jungle by apes, Tarzan is torn between the world of humans and the only family he has ever known
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Balzer+Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First paperback edition
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Unhappy Penelope Lumley is trapped in unhappy Plinkst! Even the beets for which Plinkst is inexplicably famous fail to grow in this utterly miserable Russian village. Penelope anxiously counts the days and wonders how she will ever get back to England in time to save all the Ashtons--who, she now knows, include herself and the Incorrigible children, although their precise location on the family tree is still a mystery--from their accursèd fate. Her...
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Warriors (Erin Hunter). The broken code volume 6
Warriors. The broken code volume 6
Warriors the broken code volume 6
Warriors the broken code volume 06
Warriors. The broken code volume 6
Warriors the broken code volume 6
Warriors the broken code volume 06
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Harper
Pub. Date
c2021.
Edition
First edition.
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"StarClan, the Dark Forest, and all five warrior Clans band together for a final battle that seeks to destroy Bramblestar's impostor before he destroys everything they hold dear"--
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Wild rescuers volume 2
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First edition.
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"Stacy would do anything to protect the Taiga where she lives with the pack of intelligent wolves who raised her. But when humans start to encroach on their forest, their only choice is escape to a place no Arctic wolf has gone before: the desert. The Mesa, with its canyons, snakes, and coyotes, will be like nothing the pack has ever seen. Even in this unfamiliar territory, Stacy is determined to rescue animals in need. But as she and her wolves face...
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Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
©2013.
Edition
First edition.
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Miss Penelope Lumley assuages the disappointments of her sixteenth birthday by accepting an invitation to speak at her former school, the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, which will be closed if she cannot prove the academic progress of her incorrigible charges.
16) Tumbleweed Baby
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Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
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Long ago in Nowhere, Texas, Mama and Papa Upagainstit agree to take in the wild baby their five children find in a passing tumbleweed, despite the objections of the one who used to be "the littlest-of-all girl."
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Stolen From Home and sold into a harsh life as a sled dog in northern Canada, Buck must quickly learn to survive. He soon takes his place as leader of the hardworking team, and his strength and courage become legendary among men. But the call of the wild is strong, awakening primal feelings of a life among wolves...
One of the greatest of all wildlife stories, The Call of the Wild will enthrall today's readers as it has since its first publication...
19) The wild girl
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Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2005
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Summary: A young girl and a little brown dog live together , alone in the wilderness, until a big bear tries to share thier cave.
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Jungle book (Easy reader classics) volume 3
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Sterling
Pub. Date
c2007
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A brief, simplified retelling of the episode in "The Jungle Book" during which Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves and other animals, learns that as long as he lives with his friends, they are threatened by Shere Khan and so decides to leave, accompanied by Bagheera and Baloo.
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