zoos

When the monkeys in Monkey Land Safari Park find the head keeper's keys, they decide to have a little adventure before returning them.

A boy meets an older woman at the zoo, and together they observe the animals while she tells him about the process of writing poetry.

The students at the strange new Zoo School have never seen a school like it before, but when inspectors try to close it down because of irregularities, the students are surprised to find out how much they have learned.

When the Chelsea Park Zoo is about to close, Morgan, the desolate animal keeper, receives help from a television newscaster to keep it open--and from the animals themselves.

Touring the zoo, two children pet, ride, and observe a variety of animals.

When Ruva, a young giraffe, is captured and sent to a zoo in San Francisco, she calls upon two rats, a street-smart chameleon, a runaway boy, and all the magical powers of the animal world to return to the Warm Place that is home.

Examines the over 100-year history of the Bronx Zoo and the ways in which zookeepers have improved the conditions and care for a variety of wild animals living there.

Eleven-year-old Ant, stuck in a family that she does not like, copes by pretending that her "real" parents are coming to rescue her, by loving her dog Pistachio, by volunteering at the zoo, and by bending the truth and telling lies.

Describes the animals of the world's basic habitats (grasslands, deserts, woodlands, rain forests, cold regions) and how "better" zoos in this country are trying to exhibit the animals in environments like their natural ones.

While spending two days touring a zoo to see the baby animals, the four Alden children, aged six to fourteen, help catch an escaped monkey, participate in a photography contest, and investigate a missing camera.