Jacqueline Briggs Martin

A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations.

Describes the popular street cook's life, including working in his family's restaurant as a child, figuring out what he wanted to do with his life, and his success with his food truck and restaurant.

An orphan girl discovers that she shares her grandfather's gift for finding things when their very clever pig disappears.

A loon is rescued from an oil spill, cleaned, and cared for before being returned to the wild. Includes information on cleaning birds.

"Once upon a time a creek burbled up and tumbled across a prairie valley. It was filled with insects and brook trout that ate them, frogs that chirruped and birds watching for bugs and fish. This is a true story about a man named Mike who went looking for that creek long after it was buried under fields of corn. It is the story of how a creek can be brought back to life, and with it a whole world of nature. In the words of award-winning author Jacqueline...

Long ago, two sisters in Maine owned a remarkable gray horse named Prince, who became a legend in their family.

A young mouse named Bizzy Bones is afraid the wind will blow away the old shoe that is his home, but his Uncle Ezra helps him overcome his fear.

When a case of chicken measles steals the voice of the blue-headed rooster who used to crow all day long, his friend, a plain brown hen, brings musicians to remind him to sing and save him from becoming "quiet rooster stew."

A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations.