The animals on a prairie wildlife refuge sense an approaching tornado and seek protection before it touches down and destroys everything in its path.

Presents the intersecting stories of a boy's quest for independence during a stay with his grandfather in the Colorado Rockies, and the maturation of a bird that lives in the waterfalls of a mountain stream.

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. Una joven esquimal se pierde en el r̀tico, gracias a su sentido comn͠ y a su valor logra sobrevivir.

Describes how cats communicate with people through their behavior and sounds and explains how to talk back to them using sounds, behavior, and body language.

This guide to the outdoors provides advice and instructions on camping, building shelters, finding water, and cooking outdoors. Some activities may require adult supervision.

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.

A young boy becomes the "mother" to a goose, who becomes "mother" to a duck, as they learn about the rhythms of nature together.

When his older sister Julie brings home two small wolf pups, Amaroq takes care of the one called Nutik and grows to love it, even though Julie tells him it cannot stay.

A young giraffe living on the African plains learns how to be wise as well as fearless when a lion attacks.

Briefly traces the evolution of a species of giant turtles on the Galapagos Islands from millions of years ago to the present, focusing on the last known of the species, Lonesome George.