George, Jean Craighead
Summary: While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTrophy 1996
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION GEOCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction George 1972George, Jean Craighead
Summary: This guide to the outdoors provides advice and instructions on camping, building shelters, finding water, and cooking outdoors. Some activities may require adult supervision.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2009
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Recreation GeorgeGeorge, Jean Craighead
Summary: Describes how cats communicate with people through their behavior and sounds and explains how to talk back to them using sounds, behavior, and body language.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.8 GEOGeorge, Jean Craighead
Summary: Rebecca discovers many things about plant and animal life when she spends the day in Teatown Woods in the Hudson Highlands of New York looking for the ovenbird.
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Publisher / Publication Date: TROPY 0000
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GEOGeorge, Jean Craighead
Summary: A child rescues a young crow that has fallen out of his nest during a storm, then tries to prove to Sis that Crowbar is a very smart bird.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GEOGeorge, Jean Craighead
Summary: Describes how the colonists aboard the Mayflower founded New Plymouth and celebrated their first harvest with a feast of thanksgiving.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 1993
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 394.26 GEOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: J 394.26 GEOGeorge, Jean Craighead
Summary: In 1848, ten-year-old Toozak, a Yupik Eskimo, sees a whale being born and is told by a shaman that he and his descendants must protect that whale, which Toozak names Siku, as long as it lives.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD GEOGeorge, Jean Craighead
Summary: When Julie returns to her father's Eskimo village, she struggles to find a way to save her beloved wolves in a changing Arctic world and she falls in love with a young Siberian man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GEOGeorge, Jean Craighead
Summary: A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1988
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC GEOGeorge, Jean Craighead
Summary: The animals on a prairie wildlife refuge sense an approaching tornado and seek protection before it touches down and destroys everything in its path.
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Publisher / Publication Date: TROPY 0000
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GEOGeorge, Jean Craighead
Summary: After building his own canoe, fourteen-year-old Jack Hawkins goes to try it out in his beloved Okefenokee Swamp, where an accident tests his survival skills and leads him to a shocking discovery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: TROPY 0000
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GEOGeorge, Jean Craighead
Summary: Charlie Carlisle's grandfather is ill. Charlie's friend, Singing Bird, a Teton Sioux, tells him that ravens have curing powers, so Charlie steals a baby bird from its nest. Granddad, a retired naturalist, encourages Charlie to record his observations of the bird and study the effect it has on humans. Charlie just hopes that the raven will make Granddad well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2004
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Ficition George 2004George, Jean Craighead
Summary: Oksi, daughter of Frightful, the peregrine falcon, and her journey from hatchling to adulthood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GEOGeorge, Jean Craighead
Summary: Follows the life of a red fox from his birth in a Maryland den through his growth to maturity to his eventual encounter with a determined hunter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 1996
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Summary: A field guide for finding, harvesting, and cooking wild plants, arranged by season.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crowell 1982
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Summary: Despite the dangers of a thunderstorm, Axel and his father make a difficult climb to rescue Axel's stranded dog.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J Fic Pic GeorgeGeorge, Jean Craighead
Summary: Presents a tribute to the efforts of dedicated volunteers who helped save the American bald eagle from extinction, including the story of a young boy who helped hatch an eaglet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction George 2013George, Jean Craighead
Summary: A young giraffe living on the African plains learns how to be wise as well as fearless when a lion attacks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction George 1998George, Jean Craighead
Summary: A young boy becomes the "mother" to a goose, who becomes "mother" to a duck, as they learn about the rhythms of nature together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Laura Geringer Books 2008
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR Green George 2008George, Jean Craighead
Summary: Describes how dogs communicate with people through their behavior and sounds and explains how to talk back to them using sounds, behavior, and body language.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 636.7 GEOGeorge, Jean Craighead
Summary: In 1848, ten-year-old Toozak, a Yupik Eskimo, sees a whale being born and is told by a shaman that he and his descendants must protect that whale, which Toozak names Siku, as long as it lives.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction George 2014George, Jean Craighead
Summary: Tigluk and his grandmother paddle out into the Arctic Ocean where they find a young polar bear whose mother has died because of the changes brought about by the warming climate, and they bring the cub back to their town so they can teach it how to survive in a changing world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Laura Geringer Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE Envi GeorgeGeorge, Jean Craighead
Summary: A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1994
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Summary: When his older sister Julie brings home two small wolf pups, Amaroq takes care of the one called Nutik and grows to love it, even though Julie tells him it cannot stay.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001