Jean Craighead George
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
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.
Author
Series
Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
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13-year-old Julie Miyax Kapugen, an Eskimo girl, is caught between the old ways and new.
Miyax rebels and runs away, but soon finds herself lost in the Alaskan wilderness.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
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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.
6) Julie
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Series
Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
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.
Author
Series
Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Laws protecting the spotted owls in the old growth forest of northern California cost Borden's father his logging job. Angry, Borden vows to kill any spotted owl he sees, but has a change of heart when he and his father find themselves taking care of a young owlet.
14) Water sky
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
A boy who goes to Barrow, Alaska, to live with friends of his father for awhile learns the importance of whaling to the Eskimo culture.
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Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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.
20) Luck
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Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A young sandhill crane, Luck, finds his place in the ancient crane migration from northern Canada to the Platte River.