Describes a female Monarch butterfly's solitary flight from Arkansas to Michigan as she lays the eggs that will hatch and repeat her life cycle.

During December and January, a young mole in Kansas spends her waking hours searching for food in her network of underground tunnels.

From the most celebrated children's nature writer of our time comes a posthumous new novel in the tradition of her Newbery award-winning "Julie of the Wolves" In 1848 in Barrow, Alaska, a young Eskimo boy witnesses a rare sight--the birth of a bowhead, or ice whale, that he calls Siku. But when he unwittingly guides Yankee whalers to a pod of bowhead whales, all the whales are killed. For this act, the boy receives a curse of banishment. Through the...

Homeless, sixth-grader Liza K searches for a missing alligator!

226 PAGES ILLUS. $16.95. 93-27738. 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. LIBRI FOUNDATION. DN

A child rescues a young crow that has fallen out of his nest during a storm, then tries to prove to Sis that Crowbar is a very smart bird.

NN ILLUS. $15.95. 99-010501. ILLUS: TED RAND. WHEN HIS OLDER SISTER JULIE BRINGS HOME TWO SMALL WOLF PUPS, AMAROQ TAKES CARE OF THE ONE CALLED NUTIK AND GROWS TO LOVE IT, EVEN THOUGH JULIE TELLS HIM IT CANNOT STAY . LIBRI FOUNDATION GRANT. DN

Traces the journey of a mole cricket as he explores the world above his burrow.

After catching a cutthroat, a vanishing species of fish in the Snake River, Spinner Shafter and her cousin Alligator do some ecological detecting to determine where the fish came from and how he had survived.