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 both happy and sad of her life before the circus, and she recounts the time she spent in the African savanna to Ivan and Bob.

Kira Bailey is living her dream: Cuddling koalas and bottle-feeding baby kangaroos. Kira and her mom are spending the summer at a wildlife sanctuary in Australia helping her aunt Mamie, a veterinarian, care for the animals. When Kira falls in love with an orphaned koala joey, her joy is complete--until a health emergency pulls Aunt Mamie away. Suddenly Kira can't seem to do anything right. She's put the wombats and her beloved koala joey in danger,...

Kira teams up with Evie, a student at the animal sanctuary to track down the paradise parrot--a bird thought to be extinct--and prove that it still exists. While they're trying to observe the elusive bird, bushfires threaten to wipe out the sanctuary and the parrot's habitat. There's no choice but to evacuate all the animals, which is a huge task even without trying to track down a missing baby wallaby. As the bushfires rage out of control, Kira makes...

"While on an early morning walk, Bindi and her friend Rosie see the smoke from a terrible bushfire. They rush to the Australian Wildlife Hospital to help care for the animals that were trapped in the fire"--P. [4] of cover.

Samantha's animal rescue center is on the verge of going under but funding from an interested big-city donor could keep the doors open. With just hours until the donor's visit, a white wolf suffers a life-threatening injury. Now, Sam and the town's handsome newcomer, Austin, must choose between saving the wolf or the rescue center.

Focusing on the last lioness in a Zambian wildlife refuge, looks at how the ecosystem has been impacted by the actions of humans and describes how lions are being reintroduced to the park.

Includes an excerpt from the author's : A whale of a time. "Bindi and her family are visiting Singapore for the opening of a new reptile park. .... But when a rare Komodo dragon is missing, Bindi and her brother Robert have to blend into their surroundings to find her"--P. [4] of cover.

Black and white rhinos: Courtland Parfet protects rhinos on his ranch in Kenya and has probably saved the black rhino from extinction. Elephants: Joyce Poole studies the elephants at Kenya's Ambseli National Park. Kenyan wildlife vet: Dr. Tom deMaar's patients are the wild animals that roam Kenya's Ol Jogi Sanctuary. Nazinga Game Reserve: Clark Lungren's plan to save the wildlife of Burkina Faso in West Africa resulted in the Nazinga Game Reserve....

Based on a true story, an orangutan living at a wildlife preserve in South Carolina forms an unlikely friendship with a lost dog who comes to live there.