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  5. a. Unlike the animals in Captain Noah’s Lost World Circus, many animals that are kept by circuses have to live in very bad conditions without much freedom, space or fresh air. That’s why many countries have made strict rules about how they can be kept.

  Lost World Circus:

  Book 1: The Last Elephant

  Book 2: The Singing Ape

  Book 3: Secret Superhero

  All the books in these action-packed series can be read in any order.

  Extreme Adventures:

  Crocodile Attack

  Bushfire Rescue

  Shark Bait

  Scorpion Sting

  Spider Bite

  Man Eater

  Killer Whale

  Anaconda Ambush

  Grizzly Trap

  Devil Danger

  Monkey Mountain

  Tiger Trouble

  Mission Fox:

  Snake Escape

  Panda Rescue

  Dolphin Danger

  Horse Hijack

  Puma Rumour

  Zebra Rampage

  Go Goanna

  Koala Round-up

  Visit justindath.com for heaps of great stuff about the author!

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  First published by Penguin Group (Australia), 2013

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