Inspiring young animal lovers to get up close to the big bears of the Arctic and the real-life challenges they face is what this fascinating book is all about.

Discover amazing true adventure stories, gorgeous photography, and hands-on activities, and more. Kids are introduced to real-life polar bears to learn about their world in more detail-their habitats, challenges, and successes-in order to take action and help save these amazing endangered creatures. Proceeds help National Geographic conservation efforts.

This book is part of a book series called Mission-Animal Rescue .

This book has been graded for interest at 5-10 years.

There are 112 pages in this book. This book was published 2015 by National Geographic Kids .

Nancy Castaldo is the award winning author of many nonfiction titles and the regional advisor for SCBWI- Eastern NY. She is also a photographer and environmental educator. Castaldo lives in New York State's Hudson Valley with her family, including a fluffy cat and a newly rescued Bichon named Boo Radley. National Geographic Kids collaborates to put forth fun and interesting non-fiction for kids. DANIEL RAVEN-ELLISON is a National Geographic Emerging Explorer and guerilla geographer. His work focuses on nurturing playful exploration, education, and geography through teaching, experimenting, writing, social media, gaming, and more. He's a lead partner in The Geography Collective, a group of about 25 educators and geographers who produce books, websites, events, explorations to inspire kids about the world around them. He's also one of the creators behind the Geography Collective's Mission: Explore, an online game and site for children to explore and learn about their world. KAREN DE SEVE has been writing more than 15 years about science and nature for national television, interactive museum exhibits, educational publications, and the web. Karen also writes feature stories for such publications as N ational Geographic Kids, Science World, and Weekly Reader . This is her first book for National Geographic.