Wendell Minor

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.

In the icy waters of the Pacific, a massive humpback whale unexpectedly finds herself tangled in a net abandoned by fishermen. When a rescue boat and a convoy of divers arrive to help the struggling humpback, a realistic and moving encounter bridges the human and aquatic worlds.

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.

Describes the life and career of the second man on the moon, Buzz Aldrin, from his childhood to astronaut.

Told through the eyes of a young boy, the sober mood of the country after the Lincoln assassination as he and many other mourners wait to pay their respects to their fallen president as Lincoln's funeral train travels from Washington, D.C. to Springfield, Illinois, in 1865.

Three children spend the summer with their mother on a secluded island where they discover a three-headed dragon living in a cave and learn what it means to be a Dragon Friend.