Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

Philip, an adolescent white boy who is blinded in a torpedo attack at sea during World War II, acquires a new type of vision, courage, and love when he is stranded on a tiny Caribbean island with Timothy, a kind, elderly black man.

After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learing to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given to him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.

Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead.

After an October blizzard, Laura's family moves from the claim shanty into town for the winter, a winter that an Indian has predicted will be seven months of bad weather.