After she helped them successfully retrieve a priceless baseball card from the guy who swindled it from them, best friends Griffin Bing and Ben Slovak feel they have to help Savannah Drysdale track down her missing pet capuchin monkey. However a class trip to a floating zoo docked at a nearby nature preserve solves one [...]
Roy Eberhardt has recently moved to Coconut Grove, Florida, from Montana with his parents, and is putting up with the usual nonsense that adolescent kids inflict on newcomers. He eats lunch alone in the cafeteria, except for the occasional presence of Garrett, a skateboarding air head, and is trying to navigate his way past [...]
Dragged on a day-long field trip to the Black Vine swamp in Florida’s everglades by Mrs. Starch, their terror of a science teacher, Nick Waters, his friend Marta Gonzalaz, and the rest of their class from Truman School scramble to record the names of plants and animals knowing full well that they will be tested [...]
When an elderly Inuit woman, who is frequently forced to rely upon her neighbours for food, finds a small orphaned bear cub, she adopts him as her son and names him Kunikdjuaq. The little bear shares the old woman’s meager meals, plays with the village children, and forms a deep and abiding attachment to [...]
An animal who hunts by night and likes his solitary, nocturnal existence, Fox awakens unexpectedly one morning to the knowledge that something is about to happen. He joins hundreds of other animals, all of them traveling with their mates, in a trek that lasts for many days and takes Fox and his traveling [...]
Step into Margriet’s backyard and take a look at some of the many animals and plants found there. From snakes and wasps to mice, spiders and bats, in winter, spring, summer and fall, Margriet helps the reader to explore her garden and its visitors at all times of the day and night, and in all [...]
Every winter, the animals on Stolski’s farm play hockey, practising hard for the big game, the one that will decide the winner of the Stolksi Cup. Though the Farm Team has lost that big game fifty years in a row to their rivals, the Bush League Bandits, they love hockey and they play with heart. [...]
On January 1, 2001, Becky Morley begins to record her thoughts in a new journal, the gift of her father, a Devon farmer. At thirteen, Becky is on the cusp of adolescence, impatient of her school teacher mother’s nagging, and proud that her father has decided she is old enough for three sheep of [...]
Fourteen year-old Gerry Copeland has mixed feelings about spending six months of every year living in a camp on the African veldt while his scientist parents study baboons. He misses his friends, going to the movies, watching television, indoor plumbing. Returning from a supply run to Arusha, where they have stocked up on [...]
For Dusk and his colony, life in the giant sequoia, far from the politics and alliances of the beasts on the mainland, is peaceful and happy. As a young chiropter, Dusk’s only worries concern his furless sails and overcoming an almost irresistible urge to beat those sails and try to fly when, since the [...]
