Follows the life of a red fox from his birth in a Maryland den, through his growth to maturity, and to his eventual encounter with a determined hunter.
Presents the intersecting stories of a boy's quest for independence during a stay with his grandfather in the Colorado Rockies and the maturation of a bird that lives in the waterfalls of a mountain stream.
After Spinner Shafter catches a cutthroat trout in the Snake River, she and her cousin Alligator search the nearby mountains to determine where the endangered fish came from and how it survived.
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.
Traveling illegally at night on the Colorado River with a mysterious cargo, two boys are shipwrecked and must depend for survival on their own ingenuity and a wild boy they find living along the river.
A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.
