Collection of stories about life and survival in the Pacific Northwest of America and Canada, examining the law of the club and the fang, man's instinctive reversal to primitive behavior when pitted against the brute force of nature.
Following the death of his mother, fourteen-year-old Jamie is sent to live with his mysterious aunt in the wilds of the Pacific Northwest, where he discovers some long-hidden family secrets.
Set on the coast of the Pacific Northwest, this variation on the traditional cumulative rhyme describes the silly consequences of an old woman's fishy diet.
Colby's post-high school plans to spend a year touring Europe with his best friend, Beth, are suddenly changed when she announces she will start college in the fall, and he struggles to understand why she changed her mind.
Contains ten short fiction stories, set primarily in the Pacific Northwest, about people whose wilderness adventures provide them with insights about their own lives and the behavior of strangers.
"A young girl in a Pacific Northwest Native American tribein the 1920s must deal with the death of her father and the loss of her tribe's traditional ways"--Provided by publisher.
When Billy finds a burlap sack containing a pistol and a cryptic, threatening note, he and his best friends Dannie and Finn avoid rehearsals for the town's historical pageant while trying to learn who holds a grudge and is plotting against the railroad.
With a swimming medal, the key to a mansion, and a comic book about a half-man/half-rat as her only clues, a twelve-year-old girl seeks the true story of her father's mysterious death four years earlier near an island in the Pacific Northwest.
