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41) The jungle book
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book," focusing on stories that feature Mowgli, Baloo the bear, and Bagheera the panther.
42) The jungle book
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001, c1993
Description
Presents the adventures of Mowgli, a boy reared by a pack of wolves and the wild animals of the jungle.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The true and tragic story of one of the most famous elephants of all time: Queenie, the gentle Indian elephant. Evoking a time when elephants were giving rides in zoos all around the world, the true story of Queenie follows her from her birth in an Indian jungle to Australia's Melbourne Zoo, where she lived for more than forty years.
44) The jungle book
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
An abridged retelling of the adventures of Mowgli, a boy reared by a pack of wolves, and the wild animals of the jungle. Includes discussion questions.
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 12
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"When the Thea Sisters' friend Ashvin is in trouble, they rush to his aid--in India. Ashvin has been working to return the monkeys living in the big city to their natural jungle environment. But the monkeys have suddenly started stealing jewels. Can the Thea Sisters figure out who is behind this terrible theft?"--P. [4] of cover.
46) Outside in
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In the jungle outside the growing city of Chandigarh, twelve-year-old street child Ram discovers a hidden rock garden, befriends its creator--a factory worked named Nek--and tries to save Nek's garden when it is threatened with destruction.
Description
Secret of the Andes: "A young girl who is always in trouble travels to Argentina with her archeologist father"--Container.
Hollywood safari: "An animal-training family loses their lion who is then blamed for the actions of a wild look-alike"--Container.
Lassie: the painted hills: "After Jonathan Harvey strikes gold, he goes with his new partner to sort out his findings and leaves his collie Shep to care for the orphaned son of his former partner"--Container.
River's...
Author
Series
Jungle book (Easy reader classics) volume 1
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A very curious mongoose becomes a house pet and races a snake to see who will be "Master of the Garden.".
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Scooby-Doo and the gang blaze a trail through the jungles of India, on the hunt for the criminal who's stealing the far-flung pieces of the Dragon's Eye jewel. But the monstrous guardians of the jungle are on their trail. Plus, a biplane-barnstorming banshee terrorizes Shaggy's family farm.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Ace businessman, writer, and investigative journalist Richard Parker loses his job when he exposes the vegetarian CEO of his newspaper as a beef exporter. Accused of misconduct and forced to dissolve his company, he retreats to his wretched little village.
Attempting to resuscitate his life, Richard realizes that attaining enlightenment is his calling.
What holds him back?
Well, he does not know if spirituality or sexuality comes first. He must...
51) Lord of the Kill
Author
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
With his parents in India, sixteen-year-old Ben Jepson is in charge of Los Coyotes Preserve, a refuge for big cats near Los Angeles, when two powerful groups try to shut it down by intimidation, murder, and kidnapping the largest tiger in captivity. When a half-eaten body is found inside a locked jaguar cage, eighteen-year-old Ben Jepson knows it's no prank - someone is trying to make trouble for the Los Coyotes Big Cat Preserve and its manager, Ben's...
52) The jungle book
Pub. Date
2000, 1995
Description
Presents the adventures of Mowgli, a young boy raised by the animals in an Indian jungle, as well as other animal stories and songs.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Description
"A true story of murder, love, and headhunters, Now the Hell Will Start tells the remarkable tale of Herman Perry, a budding Romeo from the streets of Washington, D.C., who wound up going native in the Indo-Burmese jungle - not because he yearned for adventure, but rather to escape the greatest manhunt conducted by the United States Army during World War II." "An African American GI assigned to a segregated labor battalion, Perry was shipped to South...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
In the ancient Indian kingdom of Kasmira, stories don’t begin with “once upon a time.” Instead, Kasmiris start a woman’s story with those who came before her: her parents, grandparents, ancestors. For fourteen-year-old Reya Kandhari, her story always starts the same: with the fabled line of Bookweavers, tracing centuries back to the lost Yogis—the mythical guardians of Kasmiri culture who created the world itself. As a result, Reya’s...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Description
"A venerable tiger, old and toothless now, looks back over his life from cubhood and early days roaming wild in the Indian jungle. Trapped into a miserable circus career as 'Raja the magnificent', he is then sold into films (co-starring with a beefy Tarzan in a leopard skin) until, finding the human world too brutish and bewildering, he makes a dramatic bid for freedom. R. K. Narayan's story combines Hindu mysticism with ripe Malgudi comedy, viewing...
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Description
Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely traditional societies still or recently in existence. Societies like those of...