prairies

Colorful photographs and text describe the plants and animals that live on the prairie and what takes place there during the different seasons.

When her parents separate and she and her siblings move with their mother from the northwest coast to a midwest prairie farmhouse, fourteen-year-old Zoe, miserably unhappy to be away from the ocean and her father, begins to develop a deep attachment to her new surroundings, when, after a shoplifting episode, she is assigned to work at a nature preserve.

A poem, accompanied by evocative landscape paintings, celebrates the natural beauty of the prairie and the joys of growing up on it.

Examines the prairie as an ecological niche and describes the plant and animal life supported there.

While making house calls with her frontier-doctor father, Cora Frear finds herself in a dangerous situation when she and her father are surrounded by a prairie fire raging out of control.

When her parents separate and she and her siblings move with their mother from the northwest coast to a midwest prairie farmhouse, fourteen-year-old Zoe, miserably unhappy to be away from the ocean and her father, begins to develop a deep attachment to her new surroundings, when, after a shoplifting episode, she is assigned to work at a nature preserve.

On the Nebraska prairie in 1880, eleven-year-old Emma finds a way to celebrate the spirit of Christmas while her mother, a midwife, delivers a baby on Christmas Eve.

The animals on a prairie wildlife refuge sense an approaching tornado and seek protection before it touches down and destroys everything in its path.

Explores prairie and grassland habitats and the species of endangered plants and animals that live in them.

While growing up on the tallgrass prairie, Young Bison and his three companions experience both a tornado which separates them from the herd and a prairie fire brought on by lightning.