title: National Geographic Readers: Saving Animal Babies
author:  Amy Shields 
description: Beginning readers wont have to choose between baby tigers, giraffes, orangutans, and seals, because each is featured in a short chapter here. When a tiger mother refuses to look after her cubs, zookeepers step in to feed them. Meanwhile, a vet treats a three-day-old, five-foot giraffe with an infection, and an orangutan foster mother cares for a baby orangutan. In other chapters, experts rescue a seal pup as well as various backyard animals in trouble. Illustrated with many high-quality photos, the text provides intriguing details as well as general information. On the Dos and Donts page, the emphasis on what not to do indicates the books practical approach. Naming the appended question-and-answer page Stump Your Parents is another savvy move. With the double appeal of animal babies and animal rescue, this volume from the National Geographic Readers series will find a ready audience. Other recent books in the series include Polar Bears and Monkeys. Grades K-2. --Carolyn Phelan
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  _**THE PROTECTOR**_
  
  
  _**Rena Marks**_
  
  
  The Protector
  
  
  Rena Marks
  
  
  Book 4 in the Stargazer series.
  
  
  In 1692, a starship carrying volunteers arrived on planet Earth near a small
  town called
  
  
  Salem, Massachusetts. The long journey across many light years caused the
  female
  
  
  inhabitants aboard drastic memory loss. When they would arrive on Earth, they
  would have
  
  
  no memories of who and what they really were. They would be as helpless as
  newborn
  
  
  lambs.
  
  
  The goal was to breed with Earthlings, to prevent their own race from dying
  out. If it was
  
  
  successful, years later more Stargazers would be sent to co-exist with the
  humans on Planet
  
  
  Earth.
  
  
  But alas—the females were slaughtered.
  
  
  *** Publisher’s Note: While each Stargazer Series book is a standalone, the
  greatest**
  
  
  **enjoyment will come from reading them in series order.**
  
  
  
  
  
  **Table of Contents**
  
  
  [Prologue](index_split_000.html#4)
  
  
  [Chapter One](index_split_000.html#6)
  
  
  [Chapter Two](index_split_00