Milton, Joyce

A guide to reading "To Kill A Mockingbird" with a critical and appreciative mind. Includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list.

A biography of the author and foreign correspondent who spent more than 10 years in China where she became one of the first outsiders to interview Mao Tse-tung and travel with units of his guerilla armies.

Discusses different types of bears, focusing especially on the period when the mother comes out of hibernation with new cubs, describing how they hunt for food, what they eat, and how the mother protects her young.

Relates many facts about gorillas including what they eat, how they sleep, and how humans have interacted with them.

Provides a portrait of the architect, inventor, president, and American statesman famous for writing the Declaration of Independence.

Describes the physical characteristics and behavior of big felines in their habitats around the world.

Introduces the natural history of wolves, examining their social structure, hunting tactics, growth, and development, and explores myths and legends about them.

Introduces the natural history of wolves, examining their social structure, hunting tactics, growth, and development, and explores myths and legends about them.

Describes how whales live and some different types of whales.