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Savage Girls and Wild Boys is a fascinating history of extraordinary children, brought up by animals, raised in the wilderness, or locked up for long years in solitary confinement.
Wild or feral children have fascinated us through the centuries, and continue to do so today. In a haunting and hugely readable study, Michael Newton deftly investigates a number of infamous cases. He looks at Peter the Wild Boy, who gripped the attention of Swift and...
4) Vinyan
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1 videodisc (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A couple faces unknown dangers in the Thai-Burmese waters, and then in the jungle, as they search for their son who was lost in the tsunami.
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2 videodiscs (approximately 78 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Mowgli is a boy who has been raised by wolves in the Indian jungle. When the wolves hear that the fierce man-hating tiger Shere Khan has returned, they decide to send Mowgli to a local "man tribe" for his own safety. With the help of Bagheera the wise panther and the happy-go-lucky bear Baloo, Mowgli meets and befriends many jungle animals as he makes his way to the village.
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Fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a recent graduate of the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, is hired as governess to three young children who have been raised by wolves and must teach them to behave in a civilized manner quickly, in preparation for a Christmas ball.
8) Tarzan
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1 videodisc (approximately 88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Raised by gorillas, Tarzan has made the jungle his home and the animals his friends. But with the appearance of humans, the only world Tarzan has ever known and the one in which he belongs are about to become one.
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Wild child volume 1
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138 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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English
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"A shy girl teaches a wild boy everything about modern living so he can impress Gam Gam at a family dinner"--
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xii, 192 pages ; 18 cm
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"San Cristóbal was an unremarkable city--small, newly prosperous, contained by rain forest and river. But then the children arrived. No one knew where they came from: thirty-two kids, seemingly born of the jungle, speaking an unknown language. At first they scavenged, stealing food and money and absconding to the trees. But their transgressions escalated to violence, and then the city's own children began defecting to join them. Facing complete collapse,...
13) Wild
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435 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"When Cade, a boy who has lived in the forest his whole life, saves a regular teen from a bear attack, he is brought into modern civilization for the first time"--Provided by publisher.
No one knows the forest better than Cade, who has spent his entire life there, foraging, hunting, and surviving. Raised to believe no one else is left in the world, he is shocked when he encounters Dara, a modern girl on a camping trip in his woods. And when an accident...
16) Logan
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1 videodisc (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hide out on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are up-ended when a young mutant arrives, being pursued by dark forces.
17) The unmapped sea
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Determined to break the wolfish curse that is threatening her charges and their unborn baby sibling, Miss Penelope Lumley takes a seaside holiday in the hope of gaining answers from an aging mariner.
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440 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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English
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Unhappy Penelope Lumley is trapped in unhappy Plinkst! Even the beets for which Plinkst is inexplicably famous fail to grow in this utterly miserable Russian village. Penelope anxiously counts the days and wonders how she will ever get back to England in time to save all the Ashtons--who, she now knows, include herself and the Incorrigible children, although their precise location on the family tree is still a mystery--from their accursèd fate. Her...
19) The good dream
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308 pages ; 25 cm
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Denounced by her 1950 Tennessee community as an old maid, 30-something Ivorie Walker hides her loneliness and grief over her mother's death behind good-humored independence before advocating on behalf of a feral boy who has been stealing vegetables from her garden.
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