Archive for the ‘Nature/Biology’ Category
The Underneath
Atheneum, 2008
Fiction
ISBN-10: 1416950583
320 pages
Newbery Award Nominee
The National Book Awards Nominee
Synopsis
A pregnant calico cat is discarded to fend for herself, and as she is making a new home in the backwaters of the bayou, she hears the lonely howls of a hound dog. Compelled to act against her normal nature, she finds the dog and moves in with him in The Underneath, the space beneath the porch of the house of Gar Face. …
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Tunnels
The Chicken House, 2007
Fantasy Fiction
ISBN: 0439871778
480 pages
Synopsis
Young Will Burrows feels estranged from his life and his family. He has only one friend at school, and it almost seems as if no one in his family is actually related to him. The only interest he shares with his father is their love for digging up archaeological remains around London. Suddenly, though, his father disappears, and Will must figure out what was behind it. …
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A Wind In The Door
Square Fish, 1973
Fantasy Fiction
ISBN-10: 0312368542
224 pages
Synopsis
Charles Wallace is falling ill, and it’s up to Meg and her friend Calvin O’Keefe to do something about it. Risking their own lives, they team up with a Cherubim that has appeared in Meg’s garden (which looks like a freakish dragon with hundreds of eyes all over its body, a much more accurate version of how the Judeo-Christian texts describe them than the paintings of little babies with wings). …
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Sunwing
Aladdin, 2000
Fantasy Fiction
ISBN-10: 0689832877
309 pages
Mr. Christie’s Book Award for 8-11 yr. olds
Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children
Synopsis
Shade starts to wonder about his father’s disappearance and the mysterious bands that are appearing around the legs of the bats. His curiosity overtaking him, he and a few other newborns leave Hibernaculum to discover the truth behind it all. …
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Silverwing
Aladdin, 1997
Fantasy Fiction
ISBN-10: 0689825587
216 pages
Mr. Christie’s Book Award for 12 and Up
Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children
Synopsis
Shade may be a young runt, but what he lacks in size, he easily makes up for in cunning. Determined to prove himself to his colony of Silverwing bats on his first dangerous winter migration to Hibernaculum, Shade gets separated from his kin during a fierce storm. …
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