Books with title Pippi to the Rescue

This children’s picture story book is suitable as a read alone book for anyone learning to read, learning English, learning English as a second language and as a bed time reader for parents introducing children to reading. While the book entertains, more emphasis is put towards the educational aspect. This is the reason why this book, one in a series of seven books, makes extensive use of sight “flash” words from the Dolchlist, covering pre primer to third grade level.Familiar names are used for all the animal characters in the book to enable children to identify with the characters and kindle their imagination. Pages in the book are done separately to address the issue of word and image distortion on some e-readers. The book is written in large words to make it easy to read. In this book, all the animals are now at the deep hole. They want to rescue Abigail and Matthew Squirrel. Olivia Elephant says ropes are for humans. Elijah Bat says he has the best night vision. Alexander Lion thinks they must first know what they are up against. Will the animals manage to rescue the Squirrels?

It's 1940 and Nazi bombs are raining down on London, but 13-year-old bike messenger Jack has just discovered something unbelievable: a stray dog with a surprising talent.Jack navigates the smoky, ash-covered streets of London amid air raid sirens and falling bombs, dodging shrapnel and listening for cries for help, as a bike messenger for fire crews. When Jack finds a dog, miraculously still alive after the latest Nazi bombing of London, he realizes there's something extra special about the shaggy pup--he can smell people who are trapped under debris. With his new canine companion, nicknamed Rip because of the dog's torn ear, maybe Jack can do more than just relay messages back-and-forth--he can actually save lives. And if Jack's friend Paula is right about the impending Nazi invasion, he and Rip will need to do all they can to help Jewish families like hers. There's just one problem: Jack has to convince his ill-tempered father to let him keep Rip.Based on true episodes during the London Blitz in World War II, this action-packed and touching story explores the beginnings of search-and-rescue dogs and the bravery and resourcefulness of young people determined to do their part for their country.

The Land of Tyke is hundreds of acres of fertile land north of the Equator where currently no humans live. Of the animal kingdom who lives in Tyke, one of the nicest species you will ever meet is called Surobnik. In our story they are mostly called suros. Come with us to the Change of Season Celebration where we hear the story of the great adventure when five brave suros ventured out and visited the scary Mission Mound.Learn the secret of the giant spider. Hear how four of her best friends were captured by the giant spider. Then Reloo got up her courage and went to rescue them. Will the spider eat Reloo or one of her friends? Will she be able to rescue all four? Join the adventure and find out.

book 4They traveled to Kystra to put out the fire and rescueClardeen, Primcella’s brother. They were too late. Clardeenand the other prisoners had already been loaded in Tralog’s spaceship. Primcella gasped as the spaceship rose in theair and disappeared in the dust surrounding Kystra. Pentil put his hand on Primcella’s shoulder. “Don’t worry.I know where they’ll take the prisoners.We can rescue them.” Pentil closed his eyes andimagined the inside of Tralog’s dungeon. He wasthe only one who ever escaped. Could he go back? He must. No one else knew the secret passageways or howto find the doorways that would take them in andthen back out.

The third book in the Saddle Island series. From the author of the widely successful Mustang Mountain series comes a third adventure in the new and exciting Saddle Island series. Set on the wild and windswept landscape of Nova Scotia's eastern shore, Race to the Rescue finds heroine Kelsie MacKay receiving an urgent phone call. She is asked to rescue a racehorse named Gem, a beautiful three-year-old filly. Kelsie and her brother Andy have started school in Dark Cove, and -- if they can get their dad to like the place or can find him a job -- it looks like they might actually get to live in Nova Scotia permanently. Meanwhile, there's a stranger lurking on Saddle Island, someone who visits the horses when nobody else is around. He seems to take a special interest in Gem. And there are weird lights out at sea on a dark night. What's going on? Kelsie and Andy find out -- and solve the mystery.

Grams and the girls find their new home wondrous but challenging. They find unique ways to cope while the Elves and Dwarves are busy with plans to rescue the Salient Humans. As plans were formed, another threat to their family come to light and an immediate rescue is needed. Grams, Rachel and Anna defy their mates and set out on the adventure of a lifetime to rescue their family from the Gralix realm. Darshak, Endel, Curmudgin and other members of the planned rescue team, follow the ladies into the Gralix realm to ensure they come to no harm. Following the resolution of this interaction, the rescue of the Salients was of foremost importance. However, the rescue team had no way of knowing that the Gralix also had plans for the extraction of the Salients. The interaction between the Humans, Elves, Dwarves and Gralix pose challenges that all had planned for, with some having been more creative in their preparations than others. The brutality of the encounters escalate into all out war.

This is the third book in the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series which follows Soren and the other young owls on their mystical quest to become true Ga'Hoolian owls, honest and brave, wise and true. Ever since Soren was kidnapped and taken to the St. Aegolius School for Orphaned Owls, he has longed to see his sister, Eglantine, again. Now Eglantine is back is Soren's life, but she's been through an ordeal too terrible for words. At the same time, Soren's mentor, Ezylryb, has mysteriously disappeared, and may be in danger. Deep within Soren's gizzard, something more powerful than knowledge tells him there's a connection between these mysterious events. In order to rescue Ezylryb, Soren must embark upon a perilous quest. It will bring him face-to-face with a force more dangerous than anything the rulers of St. Aggie's could have devised--and a truth that threatens to destroy the owl kingdom.

An Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestseller.For fans of Tom Clancy and Lee Child, a heart-pumping thriller of betrayal, revenge, and conspiracy by USA Today bestselling author Steven Konkoly.Former CIA operative turned mercenary for hire Ryan Decker’s specialty is rescuing kidnap victims. Hired by an influential US senator to liberate her daughter from a human-trafficking ring, Decker never anticipated sabotage or that the assault could go so disastrously wrong. The hostage is dead. His team is wiped out, and so are their families, including Decker’s own wife and son—eliminated one by one by the Russian mafia. And he’s survived to take the fall.When he’s inexplicably freed soon into a ten-year sentence in federal prison, Decker suspects another setup. And private investigator Harlow Mackenzie knows he’s right. She has evidence that a power greater than the Russian mob was behind the raid that ruined Decker’s life.The next move in a nationwide cat-and-mouse game of high-level sedition is up to them. Fueled by revenge and an obsession to clear his name, Decker has only one mission: to destroy a growing conspiracy before it’s too late.

In Piglets to the Rescue, Rupert, Molly and Toby, the three piglets belonging to the Harmony Family are once again thrown into the throngs of adversity. This time they must rescue their three adopted siblings, Marilyne, Loris and little Virginia from the wicked farmers, Bert and Beulah Buckett. The piglets, along with their guardians, the Canada Geese, pigeons and animals in the wilderness embark upon a rescue operation. Just like “Piglets on the Wing”, this is another fast-paced and thrilling adventure where something unexpected happens at every turn.