Gillian Richardson

How are we shaped by where we live? This collection of personal essays recounts the time the author spent on a small acreage in Prince Edward Island, Canada. Shiregreene provided many opportunities to observe nature day by day, season by season. Animal tracks in the snow revealed others who shared this place, and springtime songs gave clues to returning birds. Trails led through nearby fields as crops ripened under the summer sun, and a starry dome glittered above this dark sky place in fall. The authors responses to each seasons discoveries became woven into her identity and her awareness of what matters.

Survival in nature is a constant struggle that depends mostly on instinct...but sometimes on plain old luck. In these ten short stories, animals face dramatic moments when instinct makes the difference between life or death. A young mountain goat trusts his unproven agility in a daring leap. An eagle uses her powerful wings in a desperate bid to live. An ospreys fishing luck turns against him. Will their instinctive choices mean survival for these and the other seven animals in the stories? Exciting action and adventure for ages 9-12.

A gift of friendship brings unexpected rewards.As a young hummingbird delays facing his first migration south, he comes across a timid wood mouse fleeing a gang of cats. Humm rejects Nothings plea to carry him away, but offers to guide the mouse overland to safety. Their unlikely friendship becomes a test of courage as they discover how to help each other. With the cats in hot pursuit, they must trust another new friend to make their final watery escape possible. Humm gains the confidence needed for his solo migration. Nothing has a safe new home. Both know they would never have made it without the other. Travel with these spirited animal characters in this chapter book adventure for ages 6-8.

Ollie Buggins is part bloodhoundbut is he brave like Sherlock Bones (um...Holmes)?His boy, Harry, thinks so. At their new country home, Ollie is expected to sleep in a doghouse, even in a thunderstorm! But there are strange new smells. Spooky noises! Shadowy figures! If he cant solve these mysterieseven with help from a pair of zany crows and a wisecracking scarecrowwill Harry think hes a coward? Meet Ollie, the reluctant dog detective, and his friends in this chapter book mystery for ages 6-8.

Ten-year old Millie Powells father, a Klondike Gold Rush stampeder, is missing. Millie and her mother arrive in Dyea, Alaska in November 1897 to search for him. Devastated to learn of his accidental death, Millie wants only to return home to Victoria. While her mother works to earn money for their passage, Millie resents the difficult living conditions and fears theyll never leave Dyea. She struggles to find a sense of belonging until she meets a young friend, Thomas, and his dog Rosie. When Thomas heads up the Chilkoot trail with his uncles, he leaves Rosie in Millies care until spring. Disaster strikes in April an avalanche kills many climbers on the trail. The tragic reminder of how Millies father died prompts her mother to decide its time to go home. Activity in Dyea slows once the gold seekers move on, but Millie has found reasons to stay. As departure time looms, she plots to persuade her mother to relocate instead to the growing town of Skagway, and to embrace their new way of life.

Summer 1986. Thirteen year-old Zora Chapman cant wait to leave her city home for her usual summer of hiking, birding and sketching on her grandparents prairie farm. This year, though, shes dismayed by unwelcome changesan encroaching housing development, and the discovery that her grandparents are being pressured by her uncle to develop their land too. Grampa vows to stand firm, especially unwilling to lose the Forever Place, a unique patch of never-cultivated native prairie.Looking for solace on long-familiar trails, Zora spots a family of endangered burrowing owls, whose nest site lies right in the path of construction machines. A stressful confrontation seriously impacts Grampas health, and Zora fears not only the rare owls may be lost, but the farm as well. A solution comes to light ...but it involves the Forever Place, and Grampa tasks Zora with final approval. Her choice will be bittersweet, but will it offer a deeper understanding of what forever really means?

Un sorprendente viaje por diez rutas que, más largas o más cortas y en diferentes épocas, dieron forma al mundo que conocemos hoy.Con este libro cruzarás el puente de Beringia hacia América con los primeros pobladores de ese continente y seguiras a los animales salvajes por la ruta migratoria del Serengueti. Recorreras la red adoquinada de calzadas romanas de Inglaterra y la maravilla de la ingenieria del Gran Camino Inca, que permitieron el florecimiento de dos imperios. Conoceras a los pioneros que arriesgaban su vida en busca de oro por la remota y helada ruta de los Chilkoot, a los fieles peregrinos del Camino de Santiago, a los presos rusos que construyeron el ferrocarril Transiberiano y a los esperanzados estadounidenses que viajaban en tropel hacia el oeste por la Ruta 66. Tambien, si te atreves, podras aventurarte por el paso Jaiber y la ruta de Ho Chi Minh, senderos de guerras e invasiones.

¡Sumérgete en las fascinantes historias de las plantas que han transformado nuestras vidas!Hay muchas plantas a nuestro alrededor ¡y todas tienen cosas asombrosas que contarnos! Utilizamos cada día productos derivados de algunas de ellas, sin pensar en los lugares de donde provienen o en lo importantes que han sido en el desarrollo de las distintas culturas y civilizaciones. Diez plantas que cambiaron el mundo es una interesante seleccion de historias sobre diez plantas, entre ellas el papiro, el algodon, la PIMIENTA o el TE, y algunas menos conocidas como el caucho o la QUINA, pero todos han provocado profundos cambios no siempre buenos en nuestro mundo. Descubriremos de donde provienen los pantalones vaqueros que usamos, que hay detras de las patatas fritas o de las palomitas de MAIZ que tanto nos gustan, del chocolate o del azucar; viajaremos a traves de la historia para saber como fue el descubrimiento de nuevas plantas, los largos viajes que algunas hicieron desde su lugar de origen, y entenderemos por que sin ellas nuestra vida seria hoy muy diferente.

Un sorprendente viaje por diez rutas que, más largas o más cortas y en diferentes épocas, dieron forma al mundo que conocemos hoy. Con este libro cruzarás el puente de Beringia hacia América con los primeros pobladores de ese continente y seguiras a lo

Hay muchas plantas a nuestro alrededor ¡y todas tienen cosas asombrosas que contarnos! Utilizamos cada día productos derivados de algunas de ellas, sin pensar en los lugares de donde provienen o en lo importantes que han sido en el desarrollo de las distintas culturas y civilizaciones.Diez plantas que cambiaron el mundo es una interesante seleccion de historias sobre diez plantas, entre ellas el papiro, el algodon, la PIMIENTA o el TE, y algunas menos conocidas como el caucho o la QUINA, pero todos han provocado profundos cambios -no siempre buenos- en nuestro mundo.Descubriremos de donde provienen los pantalones vaqueros que usamos, que hay detras de las patatas fritas o de las palomitas de MAIZ que tanto nos gustan, del chocolate o del azucar; viajaremos a traves de la historia para saber como fue el descubrimiento de nuevas plantas, los largos viajes que algunas hicieron desde su lugar de origen, y entenderemos por que sin ellas nuestra vida seria hoy muy diferente.