George, Jean Craighead

A lonely, daydreaming, fourteen-year-old girl, who wants to do a great deed, sets loose a coyote brought to New York City aboard a freighter, and watches the city panic, the coyote suffer but survive, and herself grow to maturity.

A young girl learns that freedom, to be enjoyed, needs to be earned through self-discipline. A trained sparrow hawk broadens her knowledge of this fact.

Chronicles a year in a bear's life as she responds to the instinctive calls to mate, dig a den for hibernation, awaken with the spring thaw and bear her cubs.