colorado

A woman's life on the Colorado frontier, told by Mattie McCauley, a homestead bride. She describes the hardships--weather, childbirth, Indians--how she saved Luke, her husband with some fast shooting and how she was betrayed by him when Luke's old flame, Persia, came to town. Yet she remains by his side for the sake of the family and the children.

Twins Ashley and Bryce get involved in another mystery when they observe strange goings-on near the alpaca farm, and, meantime, their school is embroiled in a controversy over an annual day of public prayer.

Eleven-year-old Dessa Dean, mourning the death of her mother, finds an injured dog on her porch, which allows both Dessa and the dog to heal together with a friendship that shapes both of their lives.

In 1868, twelve-year-old Emma and her widowed mother move to a tiny mining town in Colorado Territory to start a newspaper, but someone is determined to scare them away.

14-year old Cassie Sullivan refuses to go along with some of the things the majority embraces at her school and is surprised to find how much is made of her actions. Cassie tries to stay cool in the face of torments and finds refuge in keeping her journal. She beings to question if just simply existing is what she wants, or not?.

When Peyton Newlin, a 13-year-old math genius disappears, math teacher Bonnie Pinkwater begins to investigate. One by one, Peyton's competitors turn up dead and Bonnie suspects the young math whiz may have something to do with it. But when Peyton also is murdered, Bonnie's sleuthing reveals a coven of witches, a violent skinhead, an abusive father, an amorous science teacher and a medieval mathematics manuscript that has been mistranslated.