Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction

Lonely Daniel Rider, living with his parents in his dead grandmother's house in the Adirondack Mountains, becomes involved with a young poet grieving for a dead friend and a mysterious black bird that reveals other people's dreams.

After a car accident in the Adirondacks leaves her older sister Ivy brain-dead, seventeen-year-old Rose struggles with her grief and guilt as she slowly learns to let her sister go.

A boy is sent to live with his grandparents in Thurman after the mysterious death of his father.

Fourteen-year-old Leo's summer job with an elderly man and his family in the Adirondacks gives him self-confidence and a greater understanding of people.