mountain life

When Sassafras Bates finds his dog dead, he suspects that one of his three spinster aunts is the murderer.

A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains, including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.

Reminiscences of the pleasures of life in the mountains as a child.

Presents a children's book for early readers that describes, through the eyes of a ten-year-old girl, the things to do and see while living in the mountains of Colorado.

After hearing some men call his father and him hillbillies on his first trip into the nearby town of Hudson, a young boy is not so sure he still wants to become a basket maker.

Isolated on her mountain, Amber meets and befriends a girl from the city who gives her the determination to learn to read and write.