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1) Gorillas
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
Describes the physical characteristics and behavior of various kinds of gorillas.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
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Description
Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it at all. Instead, Ivan thinks about TV shows he's seen and about his friends Stella, an elderly elephant, and Bob, a stray dog. But mostly Ivan thinks about art and how to capture the taste of a mango or...
5) Julius
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
460L
Language
English
8) Gorillas
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Given their huge size and hulking movements, gorillas might seem frightening at first, but they are actually gentle and intelligent animals. Readers will find out how these gentle giants search for food, communicate with one another, and form complex social groups.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 540L
Language
English
Description
Gladys the gorilla is tired of eating nothing but bananas, until the day she smells something wonderful that lures her from the zoo in search of a new treat. Includes a recipe for banana bread.
Author
Publisher
Columbus Zoo
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
NC 1080L
Language
English
Description
Celebrates and chronicles the surprise birth and endearing milestones of Colo, a gorilla born in 1956 at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Ohio. Follows Colo's journey from a cuddly baby, to a feisty toddler, to a mother of three, to the matriarch of one very large gorilla family and now the oldest living gorilla in the world.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While searching for her missing baby, a mother mouse encounters a gorilla who chases her all over the world, from China to the Arctic, and when he finally catches her, she gets an unexpected surprise.
13) A forest in the clouds: my year among the mountain gorillas in the remote enclave of Dian Fossey
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A zoologist's portrait of Dr. Dian Fossey's remarkable mountain gorilla camp documents the story of the controversial unraveling of the Rwandan facility after Fossey's murder and the author's contributions to tracking mountain gorillas through hostile terrain, confronting aggressive silverbacks and rehabilitating orphaned baby gorillas.
Author
Series
One and only Ivan volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Ivan has been happily living in a wildlife sanctuary, with his friend Ruby next door in the elephant enclosure, frequent visits from his canine friend Bob, and his mate Kinyani by his side. And in the happiest turn of all, Ivan and Kinyani have welcomed a set of twins to their family!
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books, an imprint of Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 390L
Language
English
Description
Betty the gorilla gets very upset when she is unable to peel her banana, and every effort Mr. Toucan makes to help her only seems to make things worse.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
In this novel-in-verse that picks up a few months after the events of The One and Only Bob, Ruby recounts her life before the circus when her caretaker from the elephant orphanage in Africa comes for a visit.
Ruby's story picks up a few months after the events of The One and Only Bob . Now living in a wildlife sanctuary, Ruby's caretaker from the elephant orphanage in Africa where she grew up is visiting. Seeing him again brings back a flood of memories...
19) Dian Fossey
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam/Skylark
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
A biography of Dian Fossey, a controversial conservationist who lived among the mountain gorillas of central Africa for almost twenty years, studied the nearly extinct gorilla population, and gave her life trying to save them.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 26
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to an African rainforest, where the siblings encounter gorillas and learn to communicate with them.
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