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This novel interweaves the perspectives of Jeremy, an engineer who leaves small-town Maine in 1899 to oversee the construction of a railroad across East Africa, and finds himself the reluctant hunter of two lions killing his men in nightly attacks; and Max, an American ethnobotanist who travels to Rwanda in 2000 in search of an obscure vine that could become a lifesaving pharmaceutical, but finds herself shadowing a family of gorillas whose survival...
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This grasslands variation of the classic song "Over in the Meadow" introduces animals and their offspring that dwell on the savanna of Africa, from a mother zebra and her "little calf one" to a "cunning father jackal and his little pups ten." Includes information about the African savanna, a glossary of the animals, activities, and other "tips from the author."
4) Look!
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"An elephant eats, giraffes drink, a warthog digs, and a boy plays, reads, and dreams." --
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 11
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The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to Africa where they meet up with wonderful wild animals, a very hungry warrior, and where they even solve a riddle.
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Legend of the animal healer volume 1
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After a fire kills her parents, eleven-year-old Martine must leave England to live with her grandmother on a wildlife game reserve in South Africa, where she befriends a mythical white giraffe.
7) Man-eater
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Fact finders. Extreme! volume 6
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"Fourteen-year-old Sam is at a youth conference in Africa when the bus takes off without him, leaving him stranded. Within minutes he's attacked by an angry elephant and half-blinded by a spitting cobra. A young Masai tells Sam he needs medical attention--fast. But the only way to the hospital is through the Chui Hills. The same hills being terrorized by a ferocious, man-eating leopard"--
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