Nature, Environment, & Wildlife Rescue in Children's Fiction

Emmaline and the Bunny by Katherine Hannigan

• Pub Date: 2009
• On My List: Great Family Read Alouds 
• Cute fable-like story about a girl who longs to connect with animals and nature, but lives in a town that hates anything wild or untidy.

Tua and the Elephant by R.P. Harris

Wild Wings by Gill Lewis

Flyaway by Lucy Christopher

End of the Wild by Nicole Helget 

Saving Wonder by Mary Knight

This Journal Belongs to Ratchet by Nancy Cavanaugh

Operation Redwood by Susanna French

The End of the Wild by Nicole Helget

• Pub Date: 2017
• Grades 5-7 interest
• See also: Science 
• Fern spends the book working on her STEM project about the useful plants in the forest.

Forest World by Margarita Engle

• Pub Date: 2017
• Grades 4-7 interest 
• See also: In Verse, Multiple Narrators, Nature, Science
• Siblings who have just met explore their forest home in Cuba and talk a lot about evolution and ecology. 

Wishtree by Katherine Applegate 

• Pub Date: 2017
• Grades 4-6 interest 
• See also: Animals
• In this book, narrated by a tree, there are all sorts of animal characters. 

The Theory of Hummingbirds by Michelle Kadarusman

• Pub Date: 2017
• Grades 4-6 interest
• See also: Science, Only Children, Teachers/Librarians
• Alba and her friend Levi are really into bird watching, especially hummingbirds. 

Hello Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly

• Pub Date: 2017
• Grades 4-6 interest
• See also: Disabilities, Multiple Narrators 
• Valencia (who is deaf) keeps a zoological diary and is very interested in nature.

Be Prepared by Vera Brogsol

• Pub Date: 2018
• Grades 4-6 interest
• Graphic Novel
• Vera begs to go to Russian summer camp, but then doesn't really like how rustic it all is.