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Violet & Jobie in the Wild
Lynn Rae Perkins
Illustrator: Lynn Rae Perkins
Ages: 9+
Published: 2022
Publisher: Greenwillow/HarperCollins
ISBN: 978-0-06-249969-1
Keywords: survival, nature, animal kingdom
House mice get trapped and released to a wild they've never experienced. Can they learn to survive without humans, upon whom they've come to rely? Detailed black-and-white illustrations.