In the Grip of Winter

Author	Robin Jarvis
ISBN	1587172771

The second book of the Deptford Histories brings readers into a time when a series of dark wars between the bats and the squirrels has raged for years. The squirrel leader, the Starwife, has been betrayed and poisoned. As she lies dying, she summons a falcon to take the magic Silver Acorn to safety. Far...

Author	Garry Kilworth
ISBN	0552545465

Long ago, long before Sylver the weasel was born, the humans all left Welkin. Now life for a weasel—under the heavy paw of the vicious stoat rulers—is pretty miserable (unless you happen to be a weasel who likes living in a hovel and toiling all hours for the benefit of the stoats).

It's certainly...

Author	Melvin Burgess
ISBN	0688136257

I think everyone has that one book they read as a teenager that got them really into reading. "Cry of the Wolf" was mine.

I decided to read it again as I hadn't read it in over 10 years and I still love it. It's a great novella which focuses on the last wolves in England. The wolves don't communicate...

Author	Michael Morpurgo
ISBN	1405201908

Bullied at school, nagged at home, there's only one place Billy feels really alive and happy—in the wilderness by the canal. There he watches over a family of fox cubs as they grow toward maturity. Then his secret is discovered, and the fox family is decimated. Unwanted, unloved, Billy and the one surviving...

Author	Joan Aiken
ISBN	0618196234

Readers who have followed Dido Twite’s escapades in Black Hearts in Battersea and Nightbirds on Nantucket will welcome her return in another wild adventure. Now back in print, Dido and Pa continues the Wolves Chronicles, the exhilarating and imaginative series that stemmed from Joan Aiken’s...

Author	Bonnie Bryant
ISBN	0553483633

American author of children's books. She is best known for creating the intermediate horse book series The Saddle Club, which was published from October 1988 until April 2001. The Saddle Club chronicled the adventures of thirteen-year-old Lisa Atwood and twelve-year-olds Stephanie "Stevie" Lake...