Fourteen-year old Shar struggles to live a normal life as her father's mental instability, caused by an aneurysm of the brain, makes him more and more difficult as a family member.
Fifteen-year-old Pete, who is part Chippewa, spends a difficult summer fighting fires that threaten the northern Wisconsin forest, while also hunting an equally threatening creature believed to be part dog and part wolf.
A history of radio from the earliest experiments and discoveries in wireless communication to the modern day communications satellites, microchips, and cellular radios.
When his mother's drinking problem causes him to spend several months with country relatives in upstate Wisconsin, sixteen-year-old Carl begins to build a new life for himself, only to see it threatened by a serious mistake from his painful past.
Although neither fifteen-year-old Mark Severson nor his diabetic cousin Randy are looking forward to the canoe trip that is a family rite of passage, they begin to enjoy themselves as they make their way through Minnesota's lake country, until the trip becomes a fight for survival.
Dismayed by his parents' decision to move to a farm in the middle of his senior year, seventeen-year-old Rick accompanies his family out of loyalty but finds that life in the country has something very special to offer him.
A young girl describes what it is like to live with asthma, how this condition affects the body, some of the things that trigger an attack, and what can be done to avoid problems.
