George, Jean Craighead

Twelve-year-old Maggie receives European fire bugs for her birthday, but when they fail to metamorphose and explode instead, she uses scientific reasoning to determine the cause of their strange deaths.

Chronicles a year in a black bear's life, beginning with her emerging from hibernation in Tennessee's Smoky Mountains during the spring thaw in February.

A grizzly bear who bluffs rather than hunts for her food learns an important lesson.

While caring for a baby crow, Mandy begins to look at her family and herself in a different light.

A baby boy is given an Inupiat name to go with his English one and grows up learning the traditional ways of the Eskimo people living in the Arctic.

A young buck weathers a hurricane that strikes the coast of Connecticut in September.

Young Sam Gribley leaves New York City and spends a year living by himself in a remote area of the Catskill Mountains.

As June Pritchard trained her sparrow hawk, Zander, to prepare for his adult life she chafed at her mother's insistence that she assume the responsibilities of her own increasing age.

Tigluk and his grandmother find a young polar bear cub whose mother has died because of the changes brought about by global warming, and bring it back to their town where they can teach it how to survive in a changing world.