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In 1868, twelve-year-old Emma and her widowed mother move to a tiny mining town in Colorado Territory to start a newspaper, but someone is determined to scare them away.

While Bryce and Jeff go on a two-hundred-mile bicycle trip, Ashley tries to find out what happened to Jeff's sports memorabilia, which have mysteriously disappeared.

While accompanying an elderly rancher on a trip into the San Juan Mountains, Cloyd, a Ute Indian boy, tries to help two orphaned grizzly cubs survive the winter and, at the same time, completes his spirit mission. Sequel to "Bearstone."

Ever since she broke her wrist longboarding, Valeria has been reluctant to get back on her board, but now she has been asked to teach Chloe, the new girl in Harlow Springs, Colorado, the art of downhill longboarding and get her ready in time for the upcoming race.

In 1890s Cripple Creek, Colorado, when young Mary McHugh's father loses his leg in a mining accident, she tries to help, both by earning money and by encouraging her father to go back to carving wooden figurines and playing piano.

At Kirstie Scott's urging, her mother Sandy buys an abused mustang stallion to save him from the brutal treatment he has received in a rodeo, but it is far from clear that Rodeo Rocky will be able to adjust to life as a dude ranch horse.

"Nicki Fleming is a natural with animals. When the chance to train a service dog comes up, she just can't say "No," even if it means taking on more responsibility and having to give up some of the things she loves doiong. When Sprocket the pupppy turns out to be a handful, it takes all Nicki's compassion to keep on with his training. She knows that one day Sprocket will make someone else's life better--and that makes all the difference!"--

After a car accident in a snowy Colorado pass seriously injures their parents, athletic fourteen-year-old Danielle and her brainy younger brother Jake must scale a mountain to find help.

Alisa and Diabolo are working as stunt doubles on the set of an adventure movies, but the Stardust stunt-riding stables in Colorado are facing bitter and underhanded competition from the High Noon stables--competition that includes dangerous sabotage.

Thirteen-year-old Cissy must discover what family means to her as she is caught in a struggle between her aunt and mother in Depression-era Colorado.