A high school rebel who always wins--and possibly a childhood murderer, Rant Casey escapes from his small hometown of Middleton for the big city. He becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. On appointed nights participants recognize one another by designated car markings and then stalk and crash into each other. Rant Casey will die a spectacular highway death, after which his friends gather testimony needed to build an oral history of his short, violent life.
Jack has found a home and a purpose on a farm, keeping a flock of sheep safe from coyotes and training pups to do the same, but now he and his boy, Luke, must face a rabid wolf that threatens them all.
Cujo, a two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard, struggles to be the good dog he knows he is as his body and mind are ravaged by the rabies virus infecting him.
Jack has found a home and a purpose on a farm, keeping a flock of sheep safe from coyotes and training pups to do the same, but now he and his boy, Luke, must face a rabid wolf that threatens them all.
Sheep rancher Pete Lorda, his family, and his workers struggle to keep the ranch going when an epidemic of rabies, started when a rabid bat bit a roving coyote, infects the animals and people on the Carson City homestead.
Paralyzed into silence whenever he has to speak to anyone he doesn't know very well, twelve-year-old Luke is forced to face his fears in order to protect a passing stranger from rabies.
During the summer that Diane lives with a family as their babysitter, she works to establish rapport with the border collie Moss as everyone tries to cope with several crises.