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Name: The Wild (Junior Novel)
Rating: 3 (1 reviews)
Author: Irene Trimble

📘 The Wild (Junior Novel) by Irene Trimble

When a young lion at a city zoo escapes in an empty crate, he wakes up to find himself on the way to Africa. Now his animal friends—a strange menagerie including a giraffe, a koala, a squirrel, and a snake—must break out of the zoo, braving the concrete jungle of New York City to get him back. Young readers will love every fur-raising moment of this wild animal adventure that also features eight pages of full-color movie stills from the new CGI-animated Disney movie, The Wild

First publish date: 2006

Authors: Irene Trimble

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