Foreman, Michael

"Separated from his family during their migration south for the winter, a duckling is lost and alone until he finds an unlikely new friend"--OCLC.

"As a boy, Henry Friston dreamed of traveling the world. He thought he was signing up for a lifetime of adventure when he joined the Royal Navy. But when World War I begins, it launches the world, and Henry, into turmoil. While facing enemy fire at Gallipoli, Henry discovers the strength he needs to survive in an unexpected source: a tortoise. And so begins the friendship of a lifetime"--Provided by publisher.

A little boy in a war-ravaged country is separated by a wire fence from the streams and hills he used to visit with his father, but he finds hope when he begins to nurture a green shoot found growing in the rubble.

A soldier tells the story of Sergeant Stubby, the stray dog he found and trained in the trenches in France to sniff out gas attacks during World War I.

"Adam, an immigrant boy in a big city, is lonely until he sees snow for the first time and starts to play with the neighborhood children, and when he starts school, he gets some seeds and begins to plant them with help from his new friends"--OCLC.

Jamal is a little camel so he must walk, walk, walk through the desert. One day he becomes separated from his parents and his friend, the boy, but a wise falcon helps to reunite them.