Jean Craighead George
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
As she grows through the first years of her life in the Catskill Mountains of New York, a peregrine falcon called Frightful interacts with various humans, including the boy who raised her, a falconer who rescues her, and several unscrupulous poachers, as well as with many animals that are part of the area's ecological balance.
7) Julie
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1994
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
226 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Julie returns to her father's Eskimo village, she struggles to find a way to save her beloved wolves in a changing Arctic world and she falls in love with a young Siberian man.
8) Ice whale
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1848, ten-year-old Toozak, a Yupik Eskimo, sees a whale being born and is told by a shaman that he and his descendants must protect that whale, which Toozak names Siku, as long as it lives.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
For over a century, wolves were persecuted in the United States and nearly became extinct. Gradually reintroduced, they are thriving again in the West, much to the benefit of the ecosystem.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
©1993
Edition
New ed.
Physical Desc
47 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A great horned owl's stirrings to mate carry him across a forest in January in the Catskill Mountains, where he observes the nocturnal activities of other animals.
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1983
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
151 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Billie Wind ventures out alone into the Florida Everglades to test the legends of her Indian ancestors and learns the importance of listening to the earth's vital messages. "Billie Wind is disciplined for doubting the beliefs of her Seminole tribe. She chooses her punishment -- to journey into the Florida Everglades until she hears the animal gods who talk. The conservation message grows naturally out of the excitement of the survival adventure story"....
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the mid-1800s seventy-five million buffalo roamed in North America. In little more than fifty years, there would be almost none." The death of the buffalo and the settlers' farming and ranching practices endangered the prairie, as drought made the farmland crumble to dust. To help repair the land, the buffalo had to be saved.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : color illustrations. ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a tribute to the efforts of dedicated volunteers who helped save the American bald eagle from extinction, including the story of a young boy who helped hatch an eaglet.
17) Charlie's raven
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
190 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Charlie Carlisle's grandfather is ill. Charlie's friend, Singing Bird, a Teton Sioux, tells him that ravens have curing powers, so Charlie steals a baby bird from its nest. Granddad, a retired naturalist, encourages Charlie to record his observations of the bird and study the effect it has on humans. Charlie just hopes that the raven will make Granddad well.
19) Luck
Author
Series
Publisher
Laura Geringer Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young sandhill crane, Luck, finds his place in the ancient crane migration from northern Canada to the Platte River.