Traces the personal crisis the author endured after the death of her mother and a painful divorce, which prompted her ambition to undertake a dangerous 1,100-mile solo hike that both drove her to rock bottom and helped her to heal.
Juan teams up with his new friend Catalina and his little sister, and together they delve through books that scuttle from one shelf to the next, topple over unexpectedly, or even disappear altogether to find The Wild Book and discover its ...
In this rollicking rhymed story, Molly introduces birds and beasts to this new something called reading.
Cooper's Hawk Accipiter cooperii Cooper's hawks, also called chicken hawks, are ambush predators, flying swiftly between trees, over hedges, and around buildings to surprise and catch prey—small birds like finches and starlings and ...
'One of the best books I've read in the last five or ten years.
In early twentieth-century Cuba, bandits terrorize the countryside as a young farm girl struggles with dyslexia. Based on the life of the author's grandmother.
"Hilton Carter's love for plants is infectious.
In telling this epic story, Flores traces the origins of today’s “Sixth Extinction” to the spread of humans around the world; tracks the story of a hundred centuries of Native America; explains how Old World ideologies precipitated ...
Told with suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her. ] Oprah ...
City girl Calla Fletcher attempts to reconnect with her estranged father, and unwittingly finds herself torn between her desire to return to the bustle of Toronto and a budding relationship with a rugged Alaskan pilot in this masterful new ...
A woodcut-illustrated collection of poems that celebrates wild animals.