Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library
Youth Services Department
YOUNG ADULT
Attention All Animal Lovers
Cross, Gillian. Pictures in the Dark.  Y Fic Cross
A chance photograph taken for the school Camera Club draws Charlie into the emotionally troubled lives of his classmate Jennifer's family, especially that of her younger brother who harbors an astounding secret.

Dickinson, Peter. Eva.  Y FIC Dickinson
Eva wakes up unable to remember the accident, or fully comprehend that she has been implanted into the body of a chimpanzee. But the more she comes to terms with it, the more she wants to live with a chimpanzee tribe in the wild.

Hesse, Karen. The Music of Dolphins.  Y Fic Hesse
After rescuing an adolescent girl from the sea, researchers learn she has been raised by dolphins and attempt to rehabilitate her to the human world.

Hiaasen, Carl. Hoot.   Y FIC Hiaasen
Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.

Hobbs, Will. Beardance.  Y Fic Hobbs
While accompanying an elderly rancher on a trip into the San Juan Mountains, Cloyd, a Ute Indian boy, tries to help two orphaned grizzly cubs survive the winter and, at the same time, completes his spirit mission. Sequel to "Bearstone."

Katz, Welwyn Wilton. Whalesinger.  Y Fic Katz
A scientific field trip on the California coast, near the possible site of a sunken treasure ship from Francis Drake's expedition, brings together two teenagers, an emotionally isolated boy and a girl who is discovering she shares an empathic bond with two gray whales in the area.

Klass, David. California Blue.  Y Fic Klass
When seventeen-year-old John Rodgers discovers a new sub-species of butterfly which may necessitate closing the mill where his dying father works, they find themselves on opposite sides of the environmental conflict.

London, Jack. White Fang.  YPB L / Adult Fic London
White Fang, part wolf-part dog, has been abused by the hands of more than one master. He has been turned into a vicious beast, until he finds friendship at the hands of Weedon Scott.

Pierce, Meredith Ann. Dark Moon.  Y Fic Pierce
Jan, the prince of the unicorns, pursues his destiny to save his kind from their enemies by seeking fire in a distant land of two-footed creatures.

Rawls, Wilson. Where the Red Fern Grows.  Y PB R/ Y Fic Rawls
The story of a young boy's love for two hunting dogs and his coming of age in Oklahoma in the 1930's.

Savage, Deborah.  Summer Hawk.  Y FIC Savage
When her rescue of a baby hawk takes fifteen-year-old Taylor to a raptor rehabilitation center in rural Pennsylvania, their offer of a summer public relations job seems a step toward her dream of becoming a journalist.

Taylor, Theodore.  The Hostage.  Y FIC Taylor
Fourteen-year-old Jamie has second thoughts about harboring a killer whale that his father and he captured off the coast of Vancouver, British Columbia and plan to sell to a sea amusement park.

Wilson, Diane Lee. I Rode a Horse Milk White Jade.  Y Fic Wilson
Ouyuna , a lame girl in 14th century Mongolia, not bearing to be separated from her horse, disguises herself as a boy to ride in the Kublai Khan's army.

3/26/04