James, Betsy

In this free retelling of an old Scottish ballad, Jan, who is convinced her friend Tam is not dead but has only disappeared, follows the advice of a wise old woman and with the help of a red cloak releases him from capture by elves.

A young child's night is filled with wonderful experiences traveling up and down the dream staircase.

Seventeen-year-old Kat's struggle to learn the ways of her dead mother's people in the hill country is complicated by her failure in the bear ceremony, a spiritual rite of passage, and her attraction to the blind outcast Raim.

Natalie and her brother Thomas enjoy being underneath various things as they play enthusiastically with their patient father.

Kat, an outcast among both her father and mother's tribes, finds comfort with Nall, also an outcast; but when war breaks out between the two clans and Kat's brother is taken prisoner, Kat and Nall embark upon a dangerous journey to the Gate where the world was born.

Sixteen-year-old Kat, child of a scandalous, disastrous marriage between a Hill woman and an Upslope man, rescues a Rigi man from the sea during the week of the Long Night Dance and begins to realize a person's value does not come from his background nor appearance.

After seventeen-year-old Kat leaves the Creek home of her mother's sister, she returns to Downshore and becomes embroiled in upheaval there and in the land of the Rigi, as well as in Nall's quest to go to the Gate.

A drought threatens to force Sosi's family to move from their canyon, unless she can bring rain with her dancing.

Sixteen-year-old Kat, child of a scandalous, disastrous marriage between a Hill woman and an Upslope man, rescues a Rigi man from the sea during the week of the Long Night Dance and begins to realize a person's value does not come from his background nor appearance.