Two logs crossing: John Haskell's story
A young boy goes on a fur trapping adventure with the Indians in order to pay off his father's debt and support his widowed mother and younger brothers and sisters. The story is set in the northern woods of New York State.
Vibrations
A seventeen-year-old boy tries to establish his identity by evaluating the events and people that have influenced him in the past.
Farmer boy
The year Almanzo Wilder turned nine (1866) was an important one for the young farm boy in northern New York state.
Holiday tales: Christmas in the Adirondacks
How John Norton the trapper kept his Christmas -- John Norton's vagabond.
The lightning time
Twelve-year-old Daniel Rider draws upon some extraordinary resources while helping his grandmother resist land developers who wish to purchase her property in the Adirondack Mountains and build a resort.
Lights on the lake
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.
Us against Them
Sixteen-year-old Reed, the leader of a club with a reputation for bucking adult authority, makes a gesture of defiance by taking his friends camping in the Adirondacks, only to find his band collapsing into dissension and violence.