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02001aam a22004578a 4500 001 FD8406E69C9411E09DA2ECF76AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20210109010534 008 100916s2011 nyua 000 f eng 010 $a 2010038082 020 $a 9780385534406 020 $a 038553440X 035 $a (OCoLC)664450889 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d XBM $d QDK $d IH9 $d JAO $d SILO 050 00 $a PR6052.I785 $b J36 2011 082 00 $a 823/.914 $2 22 100 1 $a Birch, Carol, $d 1951- 245 1 $a Jamrach's menagerie : $b a novel / $c by Carol Birch. 250 $a 1st U.S. ed. 260 $a New York : $b Doubleday, $c 2011. 263 $a 1106 300 $a 295 p. : $b ill. ; $c 25 cm. 520 $a Following an incident with an escaped tiger, nineteenth-century London street urchin Jaffy Brown goes to work for Mr. Charles Jamrach, the famed importer of exotic animals, alongside Tim, a good but sometimes spitefully competitive boy. Mr. Jamrach recruits the two boys to capture a fabled dragon during the course of a three-year whaling expedition to the Dutch East Indies. They succeed in catching the reptilian beast, but when the ship's whaling venture falls short of expectations, the crew begins to regard the dragon--seething with feral power in its cage--as bad luck. 650 0 $a Boys $z England $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Whaling $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Exotic animals $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Sailors $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Male friendship $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Shipwreck survival $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Sea stories. $2 gsafd 655 7 $a Adventure fiction. $2 gsafd 941 $a 7 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20210202014741.0 952 $l MXPG943 $d 20180720040041.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171230034148.0 952 $l SCPC074 $d 20170728024941.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20170418082632.0 952 $l AXPF626 $d 20111006012001.0 952 $l XBPE737 $d 20110701013345.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FD8406E69C9411E09DA2ECF76AFF544E 994 $a 92 $b IW9Initiate Another SILO Locator Search