Claws
by Dan Greenburg
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Fourteen-year-old Cody trades one dangerous situation for another when he runs away from his abusive mother and takes a job caring for lions and tigers on a Texas ranch where one of the owners has supposedly gone missing.Tags
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A fourteen year old boy runs away from a psychologically abusive mother and ends up working at a tiger ranch in Texas where he cleans cages and cuts carcasses to feed to the big cats. Surprisingly, what he learns while he's there allows him to stand up to his mother when she eventually tracks him down.
Cody runs away from his New York City home. He ends up in Texas and volunteers his help on a tiger ranch in exchange for a place to live. Cody learns about the care and handling of tigers. It's a dangerous job, and Cody gets to experience it all. AR points = 5
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Author Dan Greenburg was born in Chicago, Illinois on June 20, 1936. He received a B.A. from the University of Illinois and a M.A. from UCLA. He writes for both children and adults. His children's series include Zack Files, Secrets of Dripping Fang, and Maximum Boy. His best-selling adult titles include How to Be a Jewish Mother, Scoring, Love show more Kills, and How to Avoid Love and Marriage. He is also a humorist, a screenwriter, and a playwright. He currently lives in Westchester County, New York. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 573 — Natural sciences & mathematics Biology Specific physiological systems in animals, regional histology and physiology in animals
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