title: National Geographic Kids Chapters: Monster Fish!: True Stories of Adventures With Animals (NGK Chapters)
author: Zeb Hogan
description: ZEB HOGAN is an ecologist whose aim is to protect critically endangered fish in vulnerable freshwater habitats. He is also the host of National Geographic Channel's Monster Fish.<br /><br />KATHLEEN WEIDNER ZOEHFELD is the award-winning author of more than 70 books for children, including What Lives in a Shell?, an NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children, and winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Best Children's Book" award; What is the World Made of?, A Children's Book of the Month Club Main Selection; What's Alive?, also named an AAAS Best Children's Book; Dinosaur Tracks, "a great choice for even the most discriminating dinophiles" (School Library Journal); Dinosaurs Big and Small, winner of the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Best Book Award; Dinosaur Parents, Dinosaur Young, an ALA Notable Book; and Secrets of the Garden, "a wonderfully informative and enjoyable journey through one family's backyard garden, from spring planting to fall harvest" (Kirkus).<br /><br /><br /><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>
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  The Big Otter
  
  
  Chapter One. Sleeping in Snow.
  
  Chapter Two. The Winter Packet.
  
  Chapter Three. Deeper Desolation.
  
  Chapter Four. The Winter Journey.
  
  Chapter Five. The Wounded Man.
  
  [Chapter Six. An Express and its
  Results.](The%20Big%20Otter_split_001.html#filepos112759)
  
  [Chapter Seven. A Tremendous Storm and Other
  
  
  Experiences.
  
  [Chapter Eight. Deep in the Wilderness we find our
  
  
  Home which is Shared with the Wild Beast, the Wild Bird, and the Savage.
  
  [Chapter Nine. A Bright Apparition — Followed by
  
  
  Rumors of War.
  
  [Chapter Ten. Salamander Gives and Receives a
  
  
  Surprise, and War is Averted by Wise Diplomacy.
  
  [Chapter Eleven. Lumley on Duty — Fort Wichikagan
  
  
  begins to Grow.
  
  [Chapter Twelve. A Narrow Escape — A Strange
  
  
  Meeting, and a Half-Revealed Mystery.
  
  [Chapter Thirteen. Fishing and its Results —
  
  
  Engineering and its Consequences.
  
  [Chapter Fourteen. Arrival of Strange
  Indians.](The%20Big%20Otter_split_002.html#fi