Seventeen-year-old Tom Long wants to be proud of his heritage as a Nez Perce Indian, but he finds it difficult to be true to his own culture in modern society.
After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
Jude's hometown is the home of
the fundamentalist church, the Grace of God. For those who fit into the church's narrow definitions, there is support and fellowship. For those who don't, there is none. Jude desperately wants to fit in but when he becomes friends with an unconventional classmate, Pearl, he realizes just how narrow the church's beliefs are. When he begins to have feelings for his friend Tim, he must also confront who he is and accept the fact that he's gay.
When Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward Pines, Idaho, searching for two missing federal agents it seems like a typical small town, until he has a violent accident, finds that he is cut off from the outside world, and begins to realize that he may never get out alive.
"Explore Idaho's famous parks,wide open spaces, relaxing hot springs, and stirring history. ... provides quick state facts such as the state motto, capital, population, animals foods, and more"--Back cover.
Maggie, a magpie who has joined a pack of wolves, befriends the alpha's male pup, Lamar. But Lamar's curiosity and compassion may threaten the pack's ability to survive.
In 1974, when thirteen-year-old Charlie Hall's mother dies and his father retreats into silent grief, Charlie finds himself drifting, nearly friendless, through a northern Idaho junior high school, but when a grizzly bear saves his life, Charlie forms an unusual friendship that changes his life.
Danny Wright is considered to be a hero by many in the rebel held area of Idaho and the Northwest, but he has little faith in what passes for a government there, or in the secretive and repressive Brotherhood--and when nuclear weapons are detonated in Washington, D.C. and New York, the Civil War suddenly turns into World War III.
