Jean Craighead George
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Freedom To Read!
Frequently banned or challenged books from 1990-1999
Frequently banned or challenged books from 2000-2009
Freedom To Read!
Frequently banned or challenged books from 1990-1999
Frequently banned or challenged books from 2000-2009
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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.
5) Julie
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Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 2
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Julie's decision to return home to her people is not an easy one. But after many months in the wilderness, living in harmony with the wolves that saved her life, she knows the time has come. Julie is not prepared, however, for all the changes that she finds. Her father has forsaken many of the old Eskimo traditions. He has given up his sled dogs for a snowmobile, and now look after the musk oxen that serve as the village's income. He will do anything...
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As she grows through the first years of her life in the Catskill Mountains of New York, a peregrine falcon called Frightful interacts with various humans, including the boy who raised her, a falconer who rescues her, and several unscrupulous poachers, as well as with many animals that are part of the area's ecological balance.
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Renowned collaborators Jean Craighead George and Wendell Minor turn their astounding talents to the topic of the persecution, near-extinction, and ultimately, the restoration of wolves in the United States. In this celebration of the return of the wolves to Yellowstone National Park, lyrical text tells how the wolves were aggressively hunted over nearly a century, and then gradually reintroduced into their natural environment, where they are once...
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The buffalo, an American icon once nearly extinct, has made a comeback. This stirring picture book tells the dramatic story, following bison from the Plains Indians to the cowboys, Teddy Roosevelt to the Dust Bowl, and from the brink of extinction to the majestic herds that now roam our national parks.
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As they did with their previous companion books, THE BUFFALO ARE BACK and THE WOLVES ARE BACK, these longtime collaborators explore the way back from near-extinction of a beloved species. Breathtaking paintings depict the majesty of the birds and the lush landscapes of their environment, while Wendell Minor movingly presents the beloved author's soaring story of a young boy and a park ranger who hatch an eaglet.
13) Charlie's raven
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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.
16) Ice whale
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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.
20) Hold zero!
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Craig and his friends have a big secret-they've built a real, working rocket. But will the countdown to takeoff begin before they're discovered? Best friends Craig, Steve, Johnny, and Phil have spent months building a rocket-not some model or a toy, but a real rocket, with boosters and a launch pad and a remote control panel. Even better, they've managed to pull off the whole project in secret. The boys can't wait to launch their rocket . ....