title: ZooPoop!: A Kid's Guide to What's Left Behind at the Zoo
author:  Jane Elizabeth 
description: Jane Elizabeth is a longtime journalist who has worked at newspapers including The Washington Post, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Virginian-Pilot, and the Richmond Times-Dispatch. She and her husband live on the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia.
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  They all gathered closer as Great-Uncle Horace slowly pulled back the towel.
  Zoe peered inside the basket and saw a little ball of light fur covered in
  brown and white spikes.“It’s a hedgehog!” she exclaimed.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Chapter One
  
  
  # School at the Zoo
  
  
  
  
  
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  Zoe Parker poured the milk on to her breakfast cereal, doing a little dance as
  she did so.
  
  
  “Careful!” said Zoe’s mum, Lucy, as some milk splashed on the table.
  
  
  “Sorry!” Zoe said, grinning. “I’m just so excited. Today is going to be the
  best day ever!” 2
  
  
  Meep, a mouse lemur and Zoe’s best friend, hopped up and down on the chair
  next to her. Zoe passed him a bowl filled with blueberries and sliced banana.
  “Here’s your breakfast, Meep,” she said.