George, Jean Craighead

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The moon of the monarch butterflies

1993
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.

The case of the missing cutthroats

an ecological mystery
1996
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.

Julie

1996
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.

The wild, wild cookbook

a guide for young wild-food foragers
1982
A field guide for finding, harvesting, and cooking wild plants, arranged by season.

One day in the woods

1988
Rebecca discovers many things about plant and animal life when she spends the day in Teatown Woods in the Hudson Highlands of New York looking for the ovenbird.

Everglades

1995
Describes the Florida Everglades, the evolution of this unique area, and the impact humans have had on its once-abundant life forms.

One day in the prairie

1986
The animals on a prairie wildlife refuge sense an approaching tornado and seek protection before it touches down and destroys everything in its path.

One day in the desert

1983
Explains how the animal and human inhabitants of the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, including a mountain lion, a roadrunner, a coyote, a tortoise, and members of the Papago Indian tribe, adapt to and survive the desert's merciless heat.

One day in the alpine tundra

1984
Relates a boy's adventure when he is alone on the alpine tundra on a stormy day.

Goose and Duck

2008
A young boy becomes the "mother" to a goose, who becomes "mother" to a duck, as they learn about the rhythms of nature together.

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