COULD THEY OUTRUN FOUR THIEVES ON HORSEBACK? Solveig simply refused to leave camp until she had ridden Snake Dancer. He was the most beautiful horse she had ever seen. So the first chance she got she slipped off the bus. In her imagination she was Xe...
Set during World War II, this serious treatment of child abuse focuses on a young girl, Clotilde, and her repeated attempts to escape, both physically and emotionally, the terrifying situation that threatens her at home...
They've always relied upon their parents to take care of them. Now they are going to have to survive alone. The vicious attack on their wagon train killed almost everyone -- except David and his younger sister, whom he calls Queen of Sheba. The tw...
They knew they couldn't give up. Victoria has heard her grandfather's story of the fabulous golden treasure a thousand times. He has told it so often that no one believes him anymore -- not even Victoria. Then suddenly it's no longer just a st...
A twelve-year-old boy learns about death and the conflicts that grip his Central American country when he's pressed into military service and trained as a soldier. "In constructing her story, Moeri faced a formidable challenge: how to look at a war t...
Once upon a Christmas, there was an old woman who lived in a hut at the edge of the forest, with only her old dog, Uproar, to keep her company. The old woman had only one wish: to celebrate a real Christmas, with a tree and presents and candles and f...
Ol' Rosie, a cranky, old mare, has escaped the corral and has led ten of the Nolan's other horses into the stark mountains of eastern Oregon. It's not the first time, but for Wart's pa, this is a particularly desperate situation. On their ranch -- as...
Completely absorbed in the wreckage of her own life that has smashed her family and catapulted her into panic attacks, Sarah Wingate flees to her childhood home in Oregon and her older sister, Julia. Sarah’s plan, suggested by her psychiatrist, is ...
Claudia Hartford is the perfect wife with a perfect husband and a perfect marriage, right up to the point when this odd little lump turns up in her right breast. This is not a true story. It is not a medical textbook or non-fiction. But it is a factu...
The Great Depression of the 1930's was not the end of the world, but it might as well have been for the men and women on the drought---stricken ranches of Central Oregon. Add to that-being a sixteen-year-old girl abandoned at one of those ranches---w...