Calvert, Patricia

Examines the life and frontier explorations of legendary trapper and Indian agent Christopher 'Kit' Carson.

Following his suicide attempt, a loner and a loser who has never lived up to his father's expectations is sent to Alaska, where he subsequently enters the annual thousand-mile-long Iditarod Trail Race from Anchorage to Nome in memory of his Athabascan Indian friend who dies.

A girl who has suffered a paralyzing spinal cord injury begins the process of emotional healing.

Fifteen-year-old Cat Kincaid, having failed to fit into a series of foster homes and finding herself stuck on a farm with an elderly female beekeeper, secretly longs for a place to be herself, not somebody she has invented.

While her father serves his term in a detention center, twelve-year-old Glennis learns that "not all prisons are made out of stone, and spiders aren't the only ones who can weave webs.".

In 1867, after his father's death and his mother's remarriage, fourteen-year-old Tyler and his black friend Isaac set out on the Missouri River headed west to seek their fortunes, encountering an unsavory keel boat captain and a Sioux chief along the way.

Parallel biographies of Sioux leader Sitting Bull and Indian Agent James McLaughlin show how the representatives of their two nations came into conflict as their cultures clashed.

With the realization that his father may not return now that the Civil War is over, thirteen-year-old Tyler finds himself the man of their Missouri farm and the master of a new dog, the strikingly colored Sooner.