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.

Sam Gribley, a nature loving boy who grows tired of city life and runs away to live off the land.

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.

A great horned owl goes out on a mid-January night for an inspection tour of his domain and the animals within it.

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.

On a rainy March night, a salamander returns to the spring pond for the ancient mating dance of the salamanders.

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.

Describes the experiences of five fox pups during the month of June in the farmland of Pennsylvania.

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.