Frank Carlson Library

The bullies called him coward. But it was on a day at a carnival in Abilene that an old Incian medicine man made an astonishing prophecy: "Some men spend their lives searching for who they are-searching for their courage. You will see yourself in the eye of the great bear." When the man's prophecy came true, Bailey had to make a choice that risked his life.....

When thirteen-year-old Josh runs away to the mountains of Montana with an orphaned bear cub destined for laboratory testing, they both must fight for their lives in a sudden snowstorm.

In the early part of the 1900s, Beatrice and Lionel, two Blackfeet Indian children, escape from the Chalk Bluff Indian Boarding School in Montana to find their grandfather, and must elude their pursuers and make a life for themselves in the wilderness.

The world of sled dog racing in northern Montana forms the background for a twelve-year-old boy's adjustment to his father's death, his mother's remarriage, and the integration of two families into one.

Recounts the adventures of twelve-year-old sleuths Slate Stephens and Daphne McSweeney as they scramble to find Cat, the governor of Montana's missing dog.

Beth Farris and her brother, Reese, are camping with their parents in Montana's Glacier National Park. It's something the whole family has been looking forward to: a real camping trip, where they will stay overnight in tents, and toast marshmallows by the evening fire. They would go hiking, fishing, and sightseeing. However, when Beth and Reese set out together on a short hike, they find strange footprints in the earth ... footprints far bigger...