With her mother in prison for killing her father, seventeen-year-old Jane seeks to escape her past and find self-reliance breeding rabbits on their Arkansas homestead.
Eleven-year-old Primrose, who lives in a small fishing village in British Columbia, recounts her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life in the months after her parents are lost at sea.
A teenage boy goes on a secret hunting trip alone in an effort to come to terms with his leukemia and to test his strength and resourcefulness in battling the elements and stalking the whitetailed deer that is his quarry.
After his experiences surviving alone in the Canadian wilderness, sixteen-year-old Brian finds it increasingly difficult to live as a normal high school student and begins planning to return to the place where he feels he really belongs.
Failing to get sympathy from her strict fundamentalist father when a rape leaves her pregnant, Lucy flees her home on Maryland's Eastern Shore and attempts to find self-reliance in nearby Ocean City.
Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.
Contains six essays and one address selected from nineteenth-century author Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Essays, First Series, " and "Essays, Second Series, " in which he shares his views on moral idealism and other topics.
Lucy is a Canada goose who likes to do things by herself, but when the time comes to migrate to Texas, she learns that there are good reasons to work as a team. Includes information on the Canada goose.
