Jean Craighead George
1) Ice whale
Author
Language
English
Description
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.
6) Arctic son
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
A baby boy is given an Inupiat name to go with his English one and grows up learning the traditional ways of the Eskimo people living in the Arctic.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Thrown into a river by a cruel human, a young tiger-striped cat fights to survive amid feral cats and other creatures near Roxville train station, aided by Mike, an eleven-year-old foster boy who is not allowed to have a pet.
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2001, c1999
Language
English
Description
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.