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After narrowly escaping the menacing clutches of the dastardly Count Olaf, the three Baudelaire orphans are taken in by a kindly herpetologist with whom they live happily for an all-too-brief time.

There’s no sound quite like it, or as viscerally terrifying: the ominous rattle of the timber rattlesnake. It’s a chilling shorthand for imminent danger, and a reminder of the countless ways that nature can suddenly snuff us out. Yet most of us have never seen a timber rattler. Though they’re found in thirty-one states, and near many major cities, in contemporary America timber rattlesnakes are creatures mostly of imagination and innate fear. Ted...

This is the story of seven little mice and how their mother manages to get her children to the first day of school.

Nate and his dog are invited to a birthday party where the birthday girl is bringing her four snakes, one of which goes missing.

When Milla, sixteen, who has lived a sheltered life on a farm near a cursed village, finally makes a friend, she learns of her connection to the curse's originator.

A lonely young rattlesnake finds that making friends in the desert is not as easy as he originally thought it would be.

"When the wild gets a little too close for comfort, these animal relocaters are who you turn to. Follow four teams as they respond to frantic calls for help from people who have come face-to-face with wild animals in their own homes and backyards. No matter how dangerous or desperate the situation, these animal wranglers get the job done--and keep the humans and the animals safe. Follow along as they deal with a rogue moose in Alaska, wild hogs in...

Sylvie and her friend True, a giant water snake, share a small apartment in a big city and have a good time together.

Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.

Clear color photos accompany an informative text in this easy reader. Habitats, physiology, hunting patterns, and prey are touched on, as is the snake's place in the animal kingdom and the effect human development has on these slithery reptiles. Similar in reading level to Lucille Recht Penner's more informative S-S-Snakes! (Random, 1994) and Patricia Lauber's nicely crafted Snakes Are Hunters (HarperCollins, 1989), this book will help fill the incessant...