Jean Craighead George
The Talking Earth
Stealth Science
Why this book counts
- Environment & Ecology
- Life Science
- Expedition / Survival
- Story / Adventure
- Nature Narrative / Field Discovery
The Talking Earth sends Seminole teenager Billie Wind into the Everglades after she demands answers about pollution, nuclear danger, traditional teachings, and the living land. Surviving with an otter, panther cub, and turtle makes close attention to animals and habitat part of her effort to reconcile school knowledge with her community's worldview.
The science inside
- Ecosystems
- Animals & Zoology
- Conservation
Your child will meet:
- The Everglades is an interconnected wetland in which water conditions shape plant and animal habitats.
- Animal movement and behavior can provide environmental clues without serving as supernatural proof.
- Pollution can move through an ecosystem and affect organisms beyond its point of release.
- Traditional ecological knowledge and scientific investigation can address overlapping observations without being treated as identical systems of meaning.
Use it this way
Parent effort: Simple activity
"Billie Wind lives with her Seminole tribe. She follows their customs, but the dangers of pollution and nuclear war she's learned about in school seem much more real to her. How can she believe the Seminole legends about talking animals and earth spirits? She wants answers, not legends. "You are a doubter,"say the men of the Seminole Council and so Billie goes out into the Everglades alone, to stay until she can believe. In the wilderness, she discovers that she must listen to the land and animals in order to survive. With an otter, a panther cub, and a turtle as companions and guides, she begins to understand that the world of her people can give her the answers she seeks.
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