Ocean State Libraries

A man made of leaves blows away, traveling wherever the wind may take him.

Fourteen-year-old Kezi and Olus, Akkan god of the winds, fall in love and together try to change her fate--to be sacrificed to a Hyte god because of a rash promise her father made--through a series of quests that might make her immortal.

A mouse and its mother experience the delights of nature on a windy spring day.

Big Bear thinks that his tremendous sneezes are causing the leaves and apples to fall off the trees and the geese to fly away, but when the wind finally convinces him otherwise, he knows what to do.

To win first prize in the Junior Cakewalk, Mirandy tries to capture the wind for her partner.

As a newly-hatched bird is blown around the farmyard by a strong wind, he keeps learning passwords that will allow him to enter different animal's homes, but is blown away again before he has the chance to go in. No matter where Little Bird goes, everyone wants to know the magic word. Is it "Peep-peep?" "Moo-moo?" "Oink-oink?" How will Little Bird ever find out? Not until Little Bird returns home does he hear the magic word from his very own Mama...

"A young girl finds a way to tame the winds besieging an old man who lives on a hill above her village." --

A boy tries to convince his teacher that the reason he is late for school is that, over and over, he had to undo the damage being caused by the wind, from tearing laundry off the line to blowing away street signs.

The farm animals are bored until a big wind strikes the barnyard.

The reader turns the book upside down to see what happens when a fierce wind blows through a country town one afternoon, affecting many different people and animals out enjoying the summer air.