Jean Craighead George
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A single, healthy bald eagle egg is brought to the lower forty-eight states from Alaska in the 1950s. In this time only a little over four hundred bald eagle pairs were thought to be living in the United States--the US was in danger of letting its national bird go extinct. In spite of the odds against it, this egg hatched, the eaglet thrived, and today it is one of the reasons why bald eagles have made a come back.
3) Ice whale
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In 1848, ten-year-old Toozak, a Yupik Eskimo, sees a whalebeing born and is told by a shaman that he and his descendants must protect that whale, which Toozak names Siku, for as long as it lives.
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Tigluk and his grandmother paddle out into the Arctic Ocean where they find a young polar bear whose mother has died because of the changes brought about by the warming climate, and they bring the cub back to their town so they can teach it how to survive in a changing world.