human-animal relationship

Because of a thousand-year-old alliance between humans and pegasi, Princess Sylvi is ceremonially bound to Ebon, her own pegasus, on her twelfth birthday, but the closeness of their bond becomes a threat to the status quo and possibly to the safety of their two nations.

An eighteen-year-old surf bum joins forces with a dolphin activist and his young assistant as they try to find and sink a ship whose pirate crew is killing dolphins along with the tuna they catch and sell.

When Pia moves to a new town, the only friend she has is her pony, Drummer, who suddenly begins talking to Pia. Soon Pia's pony-whispering power spreads and her popularity grows, until everything falls apart.

After moving with his family to Liberia, twelve-year-old Linus discovers that he has a mystical connection with the black mamba, one of the deadliest snakes in Africa, which he is told will give him some of the snake's characteristics. Includes facts about the author's experiences as a thirteen-year-old American living in Liberia in 1982.

Fourteen-year-old Logan Moore, lacking direction and self-esteem, develops a strong bond with Jack, a stray dog, but even that relationship is threatened when a deadly disease emerges which causes canines to turn vicious before they die, and has humans reacting in a typically irrational manner.

A collection of "Garfield" comic strips in which the overweight cat vacations at the beach and celebrates his seventeenth birthday.

Sonia is looking for her missing cat, Victuals, when he reappears with a head full of stitches, and is able to speak, but has no memory of how he got that way. Both set out to solve the mystery of his disappearance. Which leads them to a kingdom under the waves and a royal power struggle.

A collection of full-color "Garfield" comic strips that focuses on the feisty feline's love of food.

Presents a narrative nonfiction that examines the human impact upon the earth and how it would respond without the pressure of human presence.

Explores how myth, history, and culture have influenced the lives of the people who live with and around them.