In Wisconsin, ten-year-old Christa and eleven-year-old Alex team up to search for the lost treasure of Al Capone near where Alex has just moved into his grandfather's house and Christa is spending what may be her family's last summer in their cabin.
Young Caroline Quiner, who would grow up to become Laura Ingalls Wilder's mother, and her family survive their first year without Father in the frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin.
Retired homicide detective Jack Sawyer is pulled into the past by a series of mysterious killings near his western Wisconsin home--a past that Jack does not remember, during which, as a boy, he traveled to a parallel universe to protect his mother and save another world from destruction.
Kate and Anders try to follow the guidance of God when his grandparents travel from Sweden to Wisconsin and Grandma vanishes under mysterious circumstances.
"Will Boast thought he'd lost his family, until a deeply held secret revealed a second chance he never thought he'd have. Having already lost his mother and only brother, twenty-four-year-old Boast ... finds himself absolutely alone when his father dies of alcoholism. Numbly settling the matters of his father's estate, Boast is deep inside his grief when he stumbles upon documents revealing a secret his father had intended to keep: he'd had another family before Will's--a wife and two sons in England"--Provided by publisher.
Contains full-color photographs, illustrations, and maps that describe the history, geography, people, economy, and government of the state of Wisconsin; and includes charts, graphs, timelines, and classroom projects.
On the run with a stolen set of famous Spanish diamonds known as "The Planets," tough guy Henry Dante meets Grace McGlone at a car wash in a small Wisconsin town, a woman who refuses to have anything to do with the ill-gotten jewels, and together the unlikely couple embarks on a cross-country odyssey, pursued by a gangster obsessed with the diamonds.
