Best Selling Books by Miska Miles

A Navajo girl unravels a day's weaving on a rug whose completion, she believes, will mean the death of her grandmother.

Ten-year-old Lottie is miserable in her new school. The girls laughed when Clara the cat followed Lottie to school, and called her "Teacher's Pet" when she brought a jar of jam. Most of all she hates her sweater, knitted from Army surplus yarn.

Lonely in their new town, Jenny is delighted when a stray cat comes to their house, but her mother doesn't want the cat to stay.

The fox is forced from his usual hunting area by a fire and takes a chance raiding the farmer's chicken coop.

After wishing on a white horse for a dog, Henry sees just the one he wants; but patience and faith are required before boy and dog can get together. Grades 3-4.

A young boy living in San Francisco in 1906 enjoys Chinatown's New Year but soon becomes homeless from the great earthquake and fire.

En el mundo navajo hay un tiempo para que cada cosa regrese a la tierra. La abuela lo entiende; la madre de Ani tambien, pero no Ani. Ella no puede imaginar el mundo sin la anciana, que tiene tiempo para ayudar a cuidar a los borregos, para jugar y para reir con ella. Una aproximacion a la muerte y al tiempo desde la sabiduria de las culturas amerindias.

Of all the animals in the barnyard, only Horse can find nothing good about his morning and the view he sees every day. His friend Mouse comes up with a plan to raise his spirits.

A gosling discovers just how useful his father's loud honking can really be.

Maggie is heartbroken when her father announces he must kill the otters who are eating the abalone he fishes.

Unable to adjust to the idea of being adopted and having a new mother and father, Aaron locks his door against the world.

A fearful young possum flees when the Mississippi River overflows.

As a year passes and no one claims him, two children become more and more attached to the stray but well-trained dog they found.

An Atlantic Monthly Press book.Nobody's cat was his own master, tough and independent, but occasionally in exchange for food he allowed himself to be petted.

Little Duck goes to see the world but decides that his pond is best after all.

A forgetful chicken, off to pick blackberries for his mother, almost comes home with flies, weeds, or clover blossoms instead.

A Kansas mule balks at his young owner's efforts to exchange him for a pony. Grades 3-4.

Gertrude wanted to hurt Watson but tearing his only shirt brought more serious consequences than she anticipated.

An old beaver, searching for a new home, locates an abandoned lodge and sets about making it his own.

A boy wants to believe that the bear he met in the forest is friendly but evidence suggests otherwise.

The runt of a litter of pigs enjoys being the leader of her brothers and sisters, even if it lasts only a short while.

The children's treehouses encroach on the world of Mouse, Fox, Raccoon, Rabbit, Deer, and Dove and they must find new places to live.