While on a climbing trip with his stepfather, Josh Landis decides that he must try to rescue two young eagles from their almost inaccessible mountaintop eyrie.
When he moves from Washington, D.C., to California's High Sierra country where his new stepfather is a park ranger, twelve-year-old Josh becomes involved in the search for a bear that has mauled several people.
After moving with his mother and stepfather to the High Sierra country, twelve-year-old Josh and his new friend Ashley get caught up in the hunt for a wiley old cougar.
Devoted to the memory of her father, who has been missing in action in Vietnam for more than ten years, Ancil has difficulty accepting her new stepfather. A Companion volume to Last Was Lloyd.
Fifteen-year-old Gordie is trying to build a new life after tragically losing his family, but when his abusive father returns, Gordie must confront the traumas of the past.
Joey has often thought about the biological father who left before he was born, but when, during a trip to a Civil War battlefield, his stepfather announces his plan to legally adopt Joey, Joey decides he must find out why his father has never contacted him.
Josh, who has just moved to Vermont with his mother, stepfather, and new baby brother, must deal with the bullying of a neighbor boy and discovers that his dog, whom he hears talking with other dogs, is facing a bully of its own.