Collard, Sneed B

High school sophomore Luther Wright volunteers to help raptors at a local veterinary clinic and helps Alex, a new girl who is a social outcast, discover the truth behind the forest fires that are afflicting their small, Montana town.

With the help of a dog named Sophie, eleven-year-old boys from different time periods work together to stop the activities of a gang.

Presents an introduction to the U.S. Air Force, discussing the history and creation of the airborne branch of America's armed forces, weapons and technology from advanced fighter aircraft and radar systems to computers and space satellites, the second Gulf War and the War on Terror in Afghanistan and elsewhere, and includes a time line and glossary.

Compares and contrasts the FBI and CIA, two agencies whose primary objective is to protect American citizens and uphold the laws of the United States; covers the origins and history of each; and explores the failure to prevent the 9/11 terrorist attacks and changing roles of both.

Twelve-year-old detectives Slate Stephens and Daphne McSweeney risk their lives to find lost gold from Montana's vigilante era while working to recover two priceless Charles Russell paintings stolen from a university art museum.

The true story of Shep, a Montana dog, who for five years after the death of his master in 1936, met every train with hopes that he would see the man who had cared for him.

Presents an illustrated biography of astronaut and congressman John Glenn, who became the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962 and the oldest person to fly into outer space in 1998.

Michael and Kyle's discovery of a rare Confederate coin near an old Civil War fort in 1973 turns into a race against time as the boys try to find more coins before a hurricane hits Alabama's Gulf coast.