Run With the Wind
10 best books like Run With the Wind (Tom McCaughren): Travels with Gannon and Wyatt: Great Bear Rainforest, Hunter's Moon, Under the Hawthorn Tree, Vulpes, the Red Fox, Pet Shop of Horrors: Tokyo, Volume 8, The Fox Cub Bold, Haunt Fox, Silver Brumby Whirlwind, Firelord, The Secret of the Ruby Ring
Author | Patti Wheeler |
ISBN | 1608325881 |
Gannon and Wyatt can't wait to trek into the Great Bear Rainforest in search of the mythical spirit bear, but surviving in this unforgiving wilderness proves more challenging than they could have ever imagined. When members of the expedition go missing, the brothers bravely set out on a search-and-rescue...
Author | Garry Kilworth |
ISBN | 0044406150 |
Well, I sure hope I can do justice to this.
Hunter's Moon is an allegory of emotion biting, realistic proportions. This is animal fiction at it's prime; adult, realistic and competent. Garry Kilworth absolutely nails personification here. Unlike a portion of animal related books, these...
Author | Marita Conlon-McKenna |
ISBN | 0862782066 |
It is the late 1880s and the Great Famine has ravaged Ireland. The potatoes are black and rotten, and the people have nothing to eat. Eily, Michael and Peggy are alone in their cottage. Their parents went out in search of work and food, but never returned. Now the children must fend for themselves. Desperate...
Author | Jean Craighead George |
ISBN | 0140376232 |
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GREG!!!
a review for greg!!!
this is a wonderful little book; part of jean craighead george's american woodland tale series, which are cute little illustrated chapter books about animals in the wild and the things that they do. while we are exposed to the inner...
Pet Shop of Horrors: Tokyo, Volume 8
The adventure begins when Count D discovers that his grandfather has left a mysterious pet in a town that is about to be destroyed by the construction of a new dam. Then, Femuto's curiosity unleashes a baby dinosaur upon the skies of Shinjuku! One of Count D's customers is more than she seems when police...
Author | Colin Dann |
ISBN | 0099205319 |
This book sticks out in my memory as the first book that I actively stopped reading because I didn't want it to end. It was clear what was about to happen and I couldn't bear to manifest that reality. I felt that a refusal to scan the remaining words could somehow freeze the characters in time and stop the inevitable...
Author | Jim Kjelgaard |
ISBN | 0823400409 |
This is the story of a red fox, of a boy and a dog who hunted him, and of the wilderness where it happened.
Because of the odd-shaped white patch on his chest that gave him his name, and the freak six toes on his front feet, Star was a marked fox from his youngest days. And because of his growing wisdom and...
Author | Elyne Mitchell |
ISBN | 0006930220 |
This is the fifth in the Silver Brumby series, and is not so good as the first four. There are fewer characters and the tale is simpler. Notably though it combines with a previous stand-alone book Moon Filly. The daughter of Wurring and Ilinga from that book, Yuri (meaning the moon) now meets Thowra the...
Author | Michael Scott |
ISBN | 0863273858 |
The De Danann Isles are dying. Balor's magic has weakened the very fabric of the ancient isles. Volcanoes and earthquakes threaten to rip them apart. An ancient dark magic has been stirred up. Shining ghostly figures and bloodsucking vampires attack during the darkest night hours turning anyone they...
Author | Yvonne MacGrory |
ISBN | 0915943921 |
Lucy, a rather spoiled almost-eleven-year-old, gets a very special birthday present from her grandmother. This gift, a star ruby ring, has been passed down for generations through Lucy's family. The evening before her birthday, Lucy accidently discovers the magical secret of the ring:The secret...
Author | Rebecca Merry Murdock |
Suki and Finch arrive in Moscow on a cold winter's day. Following a setback they finally travel east to look for Eurasian Lynx and Siberian Tigers. Parts of the Russian forest are being destroyed by illegal logging. Suki and Finch devise a plan to protect the trees - home to the cats and other wild animals....
When the war ends, how do you leave your best friend behind?
After losing his young family in a tragic accident, Fletcher Carson joins the flagging war effort in Vietnam. Deeply depressed, he plans to die in the war. But during one of his early missions, Fletcher rescues a critically wounded...