Swarthout, Glendon Fred

A group of children with learning disabilities have problems coping with the many social pressures they face everyday.

While at Box Canyon Boys Camp, a group of disturbed boys search for a way to improve their lives.

A thirteen-year-old boy living with his grandparents in Michigan during the hard years of the Depression experiences a miracle when he embarks on an adventure with his grandfather one cold, blizzardy Christmas Eve to grant his grandmother's almost impossible wish.

Six adolescent boys staying at a camp in Arizona run away into the desert and learn much about themselves and the world.

Ostracized by their peers at Box Canyon Boys Camp in Arizona, six teenage boys from dysfunctional homes band together to free a herd of buffalo to be used as game in a state-sanctioned guided hunt. Includes a reader's guide.

A youngster relates how his grandparents donated a valuable family heirloom, their melodeon, to the church in an unselfish act of giving one Christmas during the Depression when they had nothing to give each other.

Six adolescent boys living in a camp in Arizona run away into the desert and learn much about themselves and the world.

Fifteen-year-old Whichaway, son of a stone-faced Arizona rancher, legs broken in an accident atop a windmill, struggles to survive after cattle rustlers have left him to die.