Skating with bears

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Nikita Ovsyanikov

An Arctic adventure tale chronicling Ovsyanikov's years spent living with the polar bears in the region. The author, a wildlife researcher, has survived numerous face to face encounters debunking popular myths of the bears as "maneaters" and in the course of the volume documents different polar bear personalities, follows walrus hunts, and also mothers leading their cubs to the ice. As if that weren't enough, over 100 color photographs make a remarkable portfolio capturing the extraordinary landscape as well as the bears themselves.

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Shirley Parenteau

It's time to go to sleep, time for Big Brown Bear to tuck all four little bears into their beds. Then he's ready to climb into his own bed and turn out the light. Five warm beds, holding five sleepy bears, until ...

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[retold by Lama Mipham

When the water level in his lake becomes dangerously low, the Fish King prays for rain to save himself and his fellow fish.

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Emily Hallin

WAS SHE MAKING A MISTAKE? Tracy wondered if it was okay for her to get interested in the brother of her sister's fiancé'. It seemed sort of weird, but she really liked Biff, and she had a feeling that he felt the same way about her. But there were a few problems: her best friend seemed to be monopolizing him, and Tracy had reason to suspect that Biff might be adopting a life-style that most definitely was not hers. Was it true, as Craig told Janine, that Biff was a boozer? At the tender age of fifteen, was he really ruining his chances not only to be on the basketball team but also of making it as a team with Tracy? [text from book jacket]