Rosanne Parry
Author
Series
Appears on these lists
Description
Swift, a young wolf cub, lives with his pack in the mountains learning to hunt, competing with his brothers and sisters for hierarchy, and watching over a new litter of cubs. Then a rival pack attacks, and Swift and his family scatter. Alone and scared, Swift must flee and find a new home. His journey takes him a remarkable one thousand miles across the Pacific Northwest. The trip is full of peril, and Swift encounters forest fires, hunters, highways,...
Author
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"For Vega and her family, salmon is life. And Vega is learning to be a salmon finder, preparing for the day when she will be her family's matriarch. But then she and her brother Deneb are separated from their pod when a devastating earthquake and tsunami render the seascape unrecognizable. Vega must use every skill she has to lead her brother back to their family. The young orcas face a shark attack, hunger, the deep ocean, and polluted waters on...
Author
Formats
Description
When 13-year-old Jody and her friends save a badly beaten Russian soldier from drowning, they put into motion a chain of events that will take them from Berlin to Paris and straight into danger. Jody must quickly learn to trust herself, because in the time directly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the border between friend and enemy is not as clear as it once was.
Author
Formats
Description
In 1863, twelve-year-old Danny and his older sister Kathleen arrive in New York City to start a new life, but they soon find themselves navigating through the same prejudices and struggles they experienced in Ireland. There's no steady work for boys except for joining the Union Army as a drummer, so Danny pretends to be a girl to avoid the workhouse and the battlefield. When he occasionally sneaks off to spend a few hours as a boy and share his rich...
Author
Series
Description
Als der junge Wolf Flink von seinem Rudel getrennt und aus seinem Revier in den Wäldern vertrieben wird, begibt er sich auf die Suche nach einem neuen Zuhause. Auf seiner gefahrvollen Reise begegnet er Jägern, Waldbränden, einem "schwarzen Fluss" voller "Krachmacher" und dem Hunger—aber auch einem freundlichen Raben und der Schönheit der Natur.
Die poetische Erzählung beruht auf dem wahren Leben des Wolfs "Journey", der über 1 600 Kilometer...