juvenile fiction

Describes the awakening, feeding, and wandering of a polar bear, from its own viewpoint.

When two Plains Indian children become lost, they are cared for and guided safely home by a friendly wolf.

While their parents are away doing research, brothers Duffy and Sumo Pugg go with their cousin, Mister Come-and-Go, to Kokalaha Island, where they meet Aunt Lulu and become trapped in an erupting volcano.

Fourteen-year-old Rosemary Elizabeth tries to fit into the world of the Shaker sisters in 1862 Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, but yearns to be reunited with her mother and siblings from whom she was separated when they sought refuge from her abusive father. Includes facts about Shakers and Morgan's Raiders.

When his father returns from the war in 1946, a ten year old boy and his family move from their home in a Montana town to an old, run-down farm in the middle of nowhere where they work hard trying to make ends meet.

Early Whitcomb, whose family's farm in Iowa is failing due to drought, is enticed by his uncle Jesse to go west and dig for gold to help prevent foreclosure, but during their adventure, Jesse gets into trouble, and Early makes hard decisions while trying to find his relative and the riches that lay hidden in the mountains.

Nick's father and others are taken prisoner when his plantation in Burma is invaded by the Japanese in 1941, leaving Nick and his friend Mya to risk their lives in order to free them from the POW camp.

After the warrior cat Clans settle into their new homes, the harmony they once had disappears as the clans start fighting each other, until the day their common enemy--the badger--invades their territory.

Kallik, Lusa, Toklo, and Ujarak unite and begin their journey to discover what it means to be a bear in the wilderness, and when they gather near a remote lake to learn from their elders, they learn that one of their group is in danger, as not all bears have the best intentions.

The four cat Clans, following a prophecy, finally reach their new home and go about the difficult work of setting borders and boundaries, and re-establishing contact with StarClan, the ancestor gods.