colorado

Thirteen-year-old Cissy must discover what family means to her as she is caught in a struggle between her aunt and mother in Depression-era Colorado.

Kirstie Scott, devastated when her favorite horse, Lucky, becomes ill, embarks on a journey deep into the Rocky Mountains to find a reclusive but legendary horse doctor, hoping he might be able to help.

When a guest at the Half-Moon Ranch in Colorado becomes injured while riding a horse named Johnny Mohawk, thirteen-year-old Kirstie must prove the horse's innocence to prevent a costly lawsuit.

Sixteen-year-old Alex feels responsible when her father dies while whitewater rafting, and when tragedy strikes again she must face her deepest fears in order to reclaim her love of the Colorado River where she grew up--and of the boy she grew up with.

High school teacher Tom Guthrie, abandoned by his wife and left to raise his two young sons alone, becomes involved in the lives of a pregnant, homeless teenager and two crusty, bachelor farmers.

Caterer Goldy Schultz, having already had a sighting of her ex-husband's murderer Sandee Brisbane--a woman who is supposed to be dead--finds her holiday season becoming even more complicated when former district attorney Drew Wellington is found dead at the library while Goldy is setting up for a festive breakfast party.

A man reflects on his troubled childhood, when, at thirteen years old, he was sentenced to two years at a reformatory ranch in Colorado, where he and the other boys cared for untamed horses.

"Twelve-year-old Coco Hidden has grown up in her mother's chocolate shop in Colorado, along with her friend Leo de la Cueva, but recently things have not been going well; the shop is failing, and Leo is hanging out with the other boys, and barely wants to talk to her--but when they both win a culinary contest, the two children and their mothers find themselves on a trip to the Amazon in Ecuador, where Coco hopes to find the rare ceiba tree, and where the plight of the native people and their jungle gives her a new perspective and purpose in life"--Provided by publisher.

On the last day of second grade, twins Finn and Molly discover a magical camper in their driveway that takes them from Ohio to Colorado, where they must save a famous cow.

While their parents deal with a scandal, sixteen-year-old Annie and her brother, Jay, spend winter break with an aunt and uncle they barely remember, uncovering family secrets.