Jean Craighead George
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
710L
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Laws protecting the spotted owls in the old growth forest of northern California cost Borden's father his logging job. Angry, Borden vows to kill any spotted owl he sees, but has a change of heart when he and his father find themselves taking care of a young owlet.
4) Snow Bear
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 480L
Language
English
Description
Bessie and a polar bear cub named Snow Bear play on the ice, while her older brother and the mother bear watch to make sure that everyone is safe.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
For over a century, wolves were persecuted in the United States and nearly became extinct. Gradually reintroduced, they are thriving again in the West, much to the benefit of the ecosystem.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
840L
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
Laura Geringer Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
"In the mid-1800s seventy-five million buffalo roamed in North America. In little more than fifty years, there would be almost none." The death of the buffalo and the settlers' farming and ranching practices endangered the prairie, as drought made the farmland crumble to dust. To help repair the land, the buffalo had to be saved.
11) Firestorm
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
Alex enjoys kayaking behind the raft of his aunt and uncle as they journey down Idaho's Salmon River, until they find themselves in the middle of a forest fire.
13) Snowboard twist
Author
Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While Axel, his father, Dag, and his dog, Grits, are testing the snow in the Teton Mountains' Glory Bowl, Axel's snowboarding rival, Kelly, starts showing off and triggers an avalanche.
14) Luck
Author
Series
Publisher
Laura Geringer Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
A young sandhill crane, Luck, finds his place in the ancient crane migration from northern Canada to the Platte River.
18) Julie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
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.
20) Water sky
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
A boy who goes to Barrow, Alaska, to live with friends of his father for awhile learns the importance of whaling to the Eskimo culture.