Jim Kjelgaard: 39 books

Literary Thoughts edition presents The Story of Geronimo by Jim Kjelgaard ------ "The Story of Geronimo" was written by American author Jim Kjelgaard (1910-1959, full name: James Arthur Kjelgaard) as a biography for teenagers of the Apache leader Geronimo (1829-1909), but using the style...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Trading Jeff and his Dog. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Jim Kjelgaard,...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Double Challenge. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Jim Kjelgaard,...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Spell of the White Sturgeon. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Hi Jolly!. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Jim Kjelgaard, which...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Duck-footed Hound. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Jim Kjelgaard,...

How big was this New World? Was it just a narrow strip of land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans? In 1670 no one knew the answers to these questions. Perhaps the settlers on the east coast were too busy to spend much time wondering. It was not so with Jacques Marquette, the missionary from France....

American author Jim Kjelgaard (1910-1959, full name: James Arthur Kjelgaard) wrote "The Story of Geronimo" in 1958 as a biography for teenagers of the Apache leader Geronimo (1829-1909), but using the more literary style of a novel and also telling the story of other famous Indians while at the same moment making his readers feel being part of his story ...

International best-selling science fiction author, David Drake teams with Jim Kjelgaard, legendary creator of Big Red.The Return of a Masterpiece of Middle Grade Fiction!OUTCASTS IN A LAND OF MONSTERSMeet Hawk, formerly a hunter in a band of prehistoric nomads, now an outcast for breaking tribal law...

How could more than a thousand elk disappear on a migration from summer to winter feeding grounds? Did they got lost and starve, were they killed by natural law or human enemies, or did they just find their way to some unknown spot? In a search for possible answers, the Conservation Department sent...

Jim Kjelgaard wrote here another spell-binder. This time in a swampland mystery he communicates his empathy for small creatures in the story of little Frosty - a kitten as compelling as the animals immortalized by Ernest Seton Thompson. Abandoned in the swamp of Dog Tooth Valley by vicious ne'er-do-well,...

This is the story of a red fox, of a boy and a dog who hunted him, and of the wilderness where it happened. Because of the odd-shaped white patch on his chest that gave him his name, and the freak six toes on his front feet, Star was a marked fox from his youngest days. And because of his growing...

The Western Writers of America awarded the Golden Spur Award to Jim Kjelgaard for this "Best Juvenile Novel", a novel for young readers about an Apache boy. Will appeal to adult readers as well. Jonathan, a full blood Hawk Apache, returns to his tribe after six years in the white man's schools.

Jim Kjelgaard had long wanted to tell the story of the gallant dogs who went out with the monks of St. Bernard Hospice to rescue travelers lost in the deep snows of the Swiss mountain passes. Unable to find the facts, he decided to reconstruct the tale as he felt it might have been. The result is this very moving story of a simple mountain boy and his devoted dog.