A color-illustrated look at cowboys in the American West from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century, which describes daily life on the cattle trail and ranches in the 1800s and the impact of cattle drives on Native Americans and settlers.
After recluse Molly McCreight was entrusted to care for single dad Ethan Hunter's infant daughter during an ice storm, her life did not return to normal. She was not ready to admit that the small family held the key to her future.
After her mother's death, sixteen-year-old Hallie faces changes in her life in the hills of eastern Oklahoma in 1918, as she takes over caring for her family and begins thinking about life as a woman.
Friends Tricia Levine, Carlos Marcos, and Tommy Gersky discover that cooties really do exist when an outbreak takes over their school and the trio must find a way to avoid the infected mob and stop the cooties' spread before they turn the entire school into zombies.
In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.