Recounts how a wolf pack struggles to survive in the frozen North and includes an author's note describing the dwindling wolf population in America and the threat of extinction.

3) Cheyenne Medicine Hat

Author

Heinz, Brian J

Pub. Date

2006

Formats

Book, Picture

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A wild mustang mare tries to protect her band from capture and from a stalking cougar.

4) Butternut Hollow Pond

Author

Heinz, Brian J

Pub. Date

[2000]

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1

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Five vignettes, from dawn to midnight, present the dramatic dynamics of survival and competition in and around a typical North American pond, featuring such animals as a pickerel frog, water snake, and opossum.

5) Mocha Dick: the legend and fury

Author

Heinz, Brian J

Pub. Date

2014.

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"In 1839, Herman Melville was among the New Yorkers who thrilled to a magazine account of a white sperm whale's attacks on whaling ships. That whale was named Mocha Dick, but 12 years later, he would be immortalized in fiction as Moby-Dick. Believed to have been active from 1810 to 1859, Mocha Dick was infamous for the ferocity of his retaliations against those who attempted to capture him. From the first recorded encounter near the South American...