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1) Skyward
Author
Language
English
Description
Be moved by this emotional story from New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe, author of The Beach House series.
E.R. nurse Ella Majors has seen all the misery that she can handle. Burned-out and unsure of her next step, she accepts the temporary position as caregiver to Marion Henderson, a frightened five-year-old who suffers from juvenile diabetes.
But Ella soon realizes there is more sorrow in the isolated home than the little girl's...
3) The otter
Author
Series
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
44 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A family of animals that lives in a lighthouse helps an otter, whose sister is trapped in an old fishing net.
4) Coot club
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dorothy and Dick have an adventure in the English countryside, involving frantic chases, calamitous boat collisions, and the attempts of their friends to protect nesting birds from rude holiday boaters.
5) Nora's duck
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. : col. ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nora finds a duckling in the woods and takes it to Doctor John, who provides love and care for many wild and domestic animals who have come to grief.
6) Angelo
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
48 p. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
While restoring the front of a church, an old plasterer rescues several injured pigeons and nurses them back to health.
Author
Series
Bed and Biscuit volume 2
Edition
1st pbk. ed.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Adam Bender, the veterinarian at the Bed and Biscuit, accepts four sick animals from the wildlife shelter for treatment and tries to make them feel at home, with the help of the domestic animals already there.
10) Forest
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young girl hears a noise in the forest near her family's farm in Canada, and when she and her mother go to investigate, they find a small fawn that seems to be all alone.
14) Martha
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author relates how he and his Moscow family rescued Martha, a crow with a broken wing, and how she joined their household.
18) The tiny patient
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
©1989
Physical Desc
33 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
A young girl and her grandmother find a chipping sparrow with a broken wing and nurse her back to health so that she can return to the wild.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Description
When a baby albino dolphin caught in old fishing netting washes ashore, Paralympics sailing hopeful Felix and English school girl Kara work with veterinarians and specialists to save and reunite the dolphin with her mother, setting off a chain of events that might just save the reef from the environmental effects of proposed dredging.
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