Young widow Jean Waterman finds friendship, love, and hope for the future when she leaves Ohio in 1954 and heads to Idaho with her two children, looking to strike it rich in uranium mining, and to give her chronically ill son a chance at adventure.
In a small town near Salt Lake City, Utah, a caring foster family and her love of running help twelve-year-old Natalie Wills feel that she can be part of normal life, despite having been raised by a drug addicted mother.
When their eleven-year-old orphaned cousin comes to live with them, the Kessler family has a difficult time, first, believing he has brought a poltergeist with him, and then learning to live with it.
A rhyming alphabet that names people, places, and things from Utah's history, culture, and natural world and provides background information on each one.
Visiting Zion National Park with his family, twelve-year-old Jack encounters two mysteries, the strange behavior of a band of wild mustangs and the possibly sinister actions of his new foster brother, a Shoshone boy.