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Ranger in time

Author:
Messner, Kate
 
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Book cover for "Rescue on the Oregon trail".
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Series Volume:
1.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
Ranger, a golden retriever, could have been a great search-and-rescue-dog except for the squirrels--but one day he unearths a mysterious box and finds himself transported back to the year 1850 where his faithful service is really needed by a family traveling west along the Oregon Trail.
Book cover for "Danger in Ancient Rome".
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Series Volume:
2.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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The mysterious box that Ranger the golden retriever found in the garden transports him back to first century Rome, where he must rescue Marcus, a young servant boy, and Quintus, a volunteer gladiator, from the brutal world of the Colosseum.
Book cover for "Long road to freedom".
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Series Volume:
3.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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This time the mysterious box that Ranger the Golden retriever found transports him to a Maryland plantation before the Civil War, where he must help a young house slave named Sarah and her younger brother Jesse find their way to the underground railroad and North to freedom, before Jesse is sold to a plantation further South.
Book cover for "Race to the South Pole".
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Series Volume:
4.
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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Ranger's mysterious box sends him back in time to Robert Falcon Scott's expedition to Antarctica, where he befriends a stowaway named Jack Nin and protects him from the hazards of the doomed expedition.
Book cover for "Journey through ash and smoke".
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Series Volume:
5.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Ranger, the time-traveling golden retriever, has landed in Viking age Iceland, where he helps a girl named Helga journey through the ash and smoke of an erupting volcano to find her father and bring him home.
Book cover for "Escape from the great earthquake".
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Series Volume:
6.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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This time Ranger, the time-traveling Golden retriever, finds himself in San Francisco in the middle of the great 1906 earthquake, and his mission is obviously to get a young Chinese immigrant, Lily Chen, to safety, but as they make their way through the ruined and burning city Ranger finds that he must also accomplish something else--finding Lily, who was sold as a servant by her parents, a new family who will care for her.
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Series Volume:
7.
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
Ranger, a time-traveling golden retriever with search-and-rescue training, heads to Normandy on the morning of the D-Day invasion where he meets Leo, a Jewish boy who is hiding with a local farmer, and Walt, a young American soldier fighting to free France from the Nazis.
Book cover for "Hurricane Katrina rescue".
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Series Volume:
8.
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
When the mysterious first aid kit takes golden retriever Ranger to New Orleans shortly before Hurricane Katrina hits, he finds himself helping Clare Porter and her grandmother, who are waiting for Clare's father at their home in the Lower Ninth Ward--and when the levees break and Clare is separated from Nana, Ranger must somehow get her to the relative safety of the Superdome, and reunite her with her family.
Book cover for "Disaster on the Titanic".
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Series Volume:
9.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Ranger is transported to Belfast in 1912, where he helps young Patrick Murphy survive the doomed maiden voyage of the Titanic.
Book cover for "Night of soldiers and spies".
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Series Volume:
10.
Average Rating:
3 stars
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Ranger the time-travelling dog heads to 1776 during Washington's retreat after the Battle of Long Island, where he helps a young patriot spy on the Hessian troops before the Battle of Trenton.
Book cover for "Escape from the Twin Towers".
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Series Volume:
11.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Ranger the time-travelling Golden retriever was trained for search-and-rescue and even though he did not pass the tests he has used his training on his many trips to help people caught up in disasters; now he has arrived at the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001 just as the first plane hits, and he must rescue fifth-graders Risha and Max who are trapped in the wreckage, guide them to safety, and hopefully reunite them with Risha's...
Book cover for "Attack on Pearl Harbor".
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Series Volume:
12.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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This time Ranger, the time-travelling Golden retriever, finds himself transported to the deck of the USS Arizona on December 7, 1941, where he rescues the young sailor Ben Hansen who is badly burned when the ship explodes--and there is a Japanese-American boy and girl in a rowboat who also need his help to find their father amid the chaos of the attack.