Jean Craighead George
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English
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The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century. Who could forget the pranks, the adventures, the sheer fun of Tom Sawyer? It's something every child should experience and every child will love. From Tom's sly trickery with the whitewashed fence, when he cleverly manipulates everyone so they happily do his work for him, to his and Becky Thatcher's calamities in Bat Cave, the...
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Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 3
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English
Description
Continues the story of Julie and her wolves in which Kapu must protect his pack from famine and disease while uniting it under his new leadership. From the author of the Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves and its sequel, Julie, comes a third exciting adventure about the wolf pack that saved the life of a young girl when she was lost on the tundra. Julie has returned to her family, but her wolf pack has a story all its own. Fearless but inexperienced...
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Publisher
Harper & Row
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. A Seminole girl is forced to spends three months and survive alone in the Everglades. "Billie Wind lives with her Seminole tribe. She follows their customs, but the dangers of pollution and nuclear war she's learned about in school seem much more real to her. How can she believe...
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English
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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.
6) Julie
Author
Series
Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 2
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) Snow Bear
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Language
English
Description
Bessie and a polar bear cub named Snow Bear play on the ice, while her older brother and the mother bear watch to make sure that everyone is safe.
11) Fire storm
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
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Alex enjoys kayaking behind the raft of his aunt and uncle as they journey down Idaho's Salmon River, until they find themselves in the middle of a forest fire.
12) Water sky
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Publisher
Harper & Row
Language
English
Description
A boy who goes to Barrow, Alaska, to live with friends of his father for a while learns the importance of whaling to the Eskimo culture.
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Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The buffalo, an American icon once nearly extinct, has made a comeback. This stirring picture book tells the dramatic story, following bison from the Plains Indians to the cowboys, Teddy Roosevelt to the Dust Bowl, and from the brink of extinction to the majestic herds that now roam our national parks.
15) Going to the sun
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Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1976
Language
English
Description
A secretly married couple spends the summer tracking a herd of Rocky Mountain goats which they conclude must not be hunted, even by the boy's determined father.
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Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Thrown into a river by a cruel human, a young tiger-striped cat fights to survive amid feral cats and other creatures near Roxville train station, aided by Mike, an eleven-year-old foster boy who is not allowed to have a pet.
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Publisher
Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Tigluk and his grandmother paddle out into the Arctic Ocean where they find a young polar bear whose mother has died because of the changes brought about by the warming climate, and they bring the cub back to their town so they can teach it how to survive in a changing world.
19) Goose and Duck
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Publisher
Laura Geringer Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A young boy becomes the "mother" to a goose, who becomes "mother" to a duck, as they learn about the rhythms of nature together.
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