Eliot Schrefer

"Deep in the desert there sits a beautiful oasis, ruled by a monarch unlike any other in Erdas. His name is Cabaro, the Great Lion, and he reigns over a kingdom of animals, jealously guarding his golden talisman. No human has ever set foot in the Great Beast's territory. The journey to his oasis is impossible. As a team, Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan have achieved the impossible before. But now that team is broken--the friends scattered by a devastating...

When an ancient dark force emerges from a centuries-long slumber, Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan must stop it from sweeping through Erdas and destroying their spirit animals--and the world.

Sophie is not happy to be back in the Congo for the summer, but when she rescues an abused baby bonobo she becomes more involved in her mother's sanctuary--and when fighting breaks out and the sanctuary is attacked, it is up to Sophie to rescue the apes and somehow survive in the jungle.

John, a sixteen-year-old American boy, has grown up with Raja, an orangutan, but when John's parents divorce, the boy and his "brother" are also separated, and John's father sells Raja to a sketchy roadside zoo. Not willing to see Raja mistreated, John stages a daring rescue, which ultimately takes boy and orangutan to Sumatra, where John learns the problems Raja's species faces in the wild.

"Gogi and the other shadowwalkers race to save their magical rainforest home before the Ant Queen makes it her own"--

Long after Mr. Popper found his famous penguins a proper home, his distant relatives, Nina and Joel, move to a new house with their mother and find mysterious eggs in the basement.

Publisher Annotation: After a frigid arctic rescue, Esquire and Mr. Pepper get the perfect opportunity to warm up-an invitation to Beatle the Pangolin's private island concert. Sun and sand await!

Sent to a remote, run-down reform school in Colorado, fifteen-year-old Angela is placed with the better girls, but upon learning that her "dangerous" friends are being isolated and left to live as animals, she takes radical steps to join them and help them escape.

A new threat -- something ancient and evil -- faces the world of Erdas and four young heroes and their spirit animals are determined to stop it as they embark on a desperate journey that takes them deep underground and to the far corners of the world.