colorado

After a busy summer training Sprocket, the service dog she has been raising, Nicki's school year gets off to a rough start as she works on reconciling her two best friends, accepting that Sprocket will soon leave for placement with someone who needs him, and awaiting the birth of the twins her mother is expecting. Includes an essay on service dogs.

An analysis of Colorado schools and the effects of library media programs.

Fourteen-year-old Danny Lopez reviews the path that led him from Las Vegas, Nevada, to an experimental school near Colorado Springs and then to his imminent death at the hands of a cat-killer ready for bigger prey.

Kirstie Scott of Half Moon Ranch learns that her new neighbors abuse their horses. When she tries to rescue the horses, they escape into the mountains forcing Kirstie to go out in search of them.

When her father dies while whitewater rafting, Alex feels responsible, but when tragedy strikes again she must face her deepest fears in order to reclaim her love of the river where she grew up--and of the boy she grew up with.

Thirteen-year-old Kirstie, whose family runs a Colorado dude ranch, vows to save a wild stallion she has seen in a rodeo, whatever the cost.

Presents a tour of the Anasazi cliff dwellings in Colorado through the eyes of some of the people who lived and visited there nearly 800 years ago.

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

A troubled Indian boy goes to live with an elderly rancher whose caring ways help the boy become a man.