Washoe County Library System

"Whenever you hear the sky rumble, that usually means a storm. In Virgil Flowers' case, make that two. The exceptional new thriller from the writer whose books are "pure reading pleasure" (Booklist) The first storm comes from, of all places, the Minnesota zoo. Two large, and very rare, Amur tigers have vanished from their cage, and authorities are worried sick that they've been stolen for their body parts. Traditional Chinese medicine prizes those...

"Can you catch the unicorn? You'll have to use your brain. So set your traps and prep your team to pet that rainbow mane!"--Back cover.

Zookeeper Theodora Bentley travels to Iceland to pick up an orphaned polar bear for a new exhibit. While in Iceland, she must put her investigative skills to use when two American birdwatchers are killed in a picturesque seaside village.

An unobservant zookeeper is followed home by all the animals he thinks he has left behind in the zoo. On board pages.

If Gerald McGrew ran the zoo, he'd let all the animals go and fill it with more unusual beasts--a ten-footed lion, an Elephant-Cat, a Mulligatawny, a Tufted Mazurka, and others.

"Amos McGee, a friendly zookeeper, always made time to visit his good friends: the elephant, the tortoise, the penguin, the rhinoceros, and the owl. But one day--'Ah-choo!'--he woke with the sniffles and the sneezes. Though he didn't make it into the zoo that day, he did receive some unexpected guests."--Dust jacket.

King Julien is celebrating his own holiday. The zoo animals want nothing to do with it! But then Maurice promises them candy. Will sweets be enough to make the animals put up with Julien's crazy ways.

An introduction to the elephant, the biggest animal in the zoo.

Photographs show interactions between mother zooborn animals and their offspring.

Enthusiastic siblings describe the animals at the "zoo, zoo, zoo."