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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In Nov. 1942 a U.S. cargo plane crashed into the Greenland ice cap, the B-17 sent on the search-and-rescue mission got caught in a storm and also crashed, miraculously all nine men aboard survived. A second rescue operation was launched, but the plane, the Grumman Duck, flew into a storm and vanished. The survivors of the B-17 spent 148 days fighting to stay alive while waiting for rescue by famed explorer Bernt Balchen. Then in 2012 the U.S. Coast...
Author
Series
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c1994.
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dogs of all breeds (and mixed breeds) can be trained to be SAR dogs. This book describes these nose-to-the-ground rescue workers and the organizations that direct their work.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bridgestone Books
Pub. Date
c2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 x 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses how rescue helicopters are used, their parts and how they work, as well as a brief history of rescue work and of helicopters in general.
7) Rescue boats
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the characteristics and use of special boats that are designed for search and rescue work.
8) The search
Author
Series
Eve Duncan novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • He strikes without warning. He kills without mercy. He's only just begun.
As part of an elite K-9 search and rescue team, Sarah Patrick and her golden retriever, Monty, have a gift for finding what no one else can. But their latest assignment is not like the others. This time Sarah is being forced to take part in a deadly mission . . . by a man who knows enough about her past to ensure her cooperation.
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As part of an elite K-9 search and rescue team, Sarah Patrick and her golden retriever, Monty, have a gift for finding what no one else can. But their latest assignment is not like the others. This time Sarah is being forced to take part in a deadly mission . . . by a man who knows enough about her past to ensure her cooperation.
...
9) Bloodline
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 8
Language
English
Description
A yacht bearing a young American couple is attacked by Somali pirates, leading to bloodshed and the violent kidnapping of the pregnant woman on board. To aid in her rescue from the lawless and war-torn jungles of coastal Africa, Sigma Force enlists the aid of a unique search team.
10) Pugsley
Author
Series
The puppy place. Main series volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Lizzie meets a mischievous young pug named Pugsley while working at her aunt's day care center for dogs, she steps in to train Pugsley so that he can get a good owner.
11) Seal pup rescue
Author
Series
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
12) Hold me
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Destiny Mills believes passion has its place--like in the lyrics of the country songs that made her parents famous. After a childhood full of drama and heartache, she wants a life that's calm. Safe. Everything that Kipling Gilmore isn't. Her temporary assignment with the Fool's Gold search and rescue team puts her in delicious proximity to the former world-class skier every day. Part of her aches to let go for once--the rest is terrified what'll...
13) Fancy the fox
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1988.
Physical Desc
[24] pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Text and photographs follow the first year in the lives of three young red foxes who are abandoned by their mother and cared for in a special shelter until they are ready to return to the wild.
14) Meet Tracker!
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
23 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Carlos falls into a hole while digging for lost treasure, he is saved by Tracker, a puppy that calls the PAW Patrol for help and then joins the team.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
A dozen dolphins, led by their eldest member and her youngster, become stranded on a sandbar and must be helped to safety by humans.
16) Storm front
Author
Series
Montana rescue volume 5
Language
English
Description
"A tornado has destroyed a small Minnesota community and among the missing are not only a group of students but PEAK Rescue team leader Chet King. Ty Remington will stop at nothing to rescue his mentor, not even when the girl he loved--and lost--walks back into his life"--
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amy Redwing is the founder of a California organization that rescues abandoned and endangered golden retrievers. Amy risks her life to save Nickie and takes her into her home. The bond between Amy and Nickie is immediate and uncanny. Even her two other goldens, Fred and Ethel, recognize Nickie as special, a natural alpha. But the instant joy Nickie brings is shadowed by a series of eerie incidents. An ominous stranger. A mysterious home invasion.
18) Forest
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
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.
20) Rescued
Author
Series
Ape quartet volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When John was ten years old his father brought back a baby orangutan from Indonesia, and Raja quickly becomes John's "brother" and responsibility--so years later, after his parents divorce, and his father has sold Raja to a roadside zoo, John sets out to rescue him and bring him to a sanctuary in Indonesia.
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