Great Books for Kids

Nathan grew frantic as he hurried from one empty building to the next. Where was everyone? How could a whole town just disappear?

In the deserted Post Office, bags of unopened mail lay everywhere. With increasing dread, he piled through the stacks of letters. There it was. His own letter to his parents telling them he was coming. No wonder they hadn't waited for him here in Willow Creek. Now what should he do?...

Nathan Riggins couldn't believe it. He and his dad and friend Colin were going on a cattle drive. But as they set out, the trip took unexpected turns...

Rivals on a high school rodeo action team learn to come to terms with each other when they're trapped in a blizzard in the Montana mountains near Glacier National Park...

For only a dollar, Thunder is a terrific bargain. But what does a boy do with a dangerous 2,500 pound buffalo that can break out of any corral ever built?

Nathan Riggins has to find some way to keep Thunder from killing someone or being killed...

Crystal Blake’s about to experience her first grand entry. Sell Caleb? Never! That big, gray Appaloosa horse is the reason Crystal Blake's in the Idaho state rodeo finals. Including the rodeo queen contest...

Summer 1852 Retta plods west with her family. She's not the first 12-year-old girl to travel the Oregon Trail, and she won't be the last. However, she might be the most stubborn, curious, and humorous...

Crystal Blake didn't plan to enter more small town adventures. However, she faces the mystery of opening an old safe to solve. A huge rodeo competition looms ahead. And she deals with mixed feelings over new friend, Shawn Sorensen. And then she must figure out the continuing conflict with Teresa Patterson. Will she be able to overcome her anger and jealousy?...

Retta Barre has faced a dizzying prairie storm, a stubborn buffalo, and a murderous Indian twice. But that's nothing compared to what happens when her family is left alone in the middle of the prairie. One danger after another and Retta is in the middle of them all.

In this kids adventure novel fourteen-year-old Crystal Blake and her friend Megan accompany Crystal’s author father Matthew Blake to north-central Idaho for a research trip for his next book project. Then, very strange things happen...

Suddenly, it was Crystal's turn, her rodeo debut. Caleb, her big gray Appaloosa, dug in and made an incredible turn around the first barrel, almost flipping Crystal. "If I keep this up, I'll have a great time!" she told herself. But before she knew it...

While spending a week with her father in the north Idaho mountains, fourteen-year-old Crystal stumbles into a kids mystery adventure as she helps uncover a fraudulent plot involving an abandoned gold mine...