adirondack mountains (n.y.)

After his mother is severely injured in an accident and his father kicks him out of the house, thirteen-year-old Travis attempts to survive on his own until he meets a guitar maker and some musicians who take him in and help him regain his confidence so that he can try to patch his family back together.

Friends Justin, Nick, and Jackie encounter unexpected adventure when they set out to search the Adirondacks for a missing moose.

Justin and Nick unlock an old camp mystery after finding a key inside an old bottle floating on Fourth Lake in the Adirondacks.

Friends Justin, Jackie, and Nick learn to expect the unexpected when they set out to climb their first high peak while vacationing in the Adirondacks.

Justin and his friends become involved in a mystery when the staged robbery aboard the North Creek Museum train in the Adirondacks turns out to be real, and the robber makes off with a treasured watch given to Justin by his grandfather.

Angry and frustrated that his entire family is considered to be poor trash, fourteen-year-old Harry defies his father and attempts to prove that a factory is polluting their small Adirondack community.

After a car accident in the Adirondacks leaves her older sister Ivy brain-dead, seventeen-year-old Rose struggles with her grief and guilt as she slowly learns to let her sister go.

Photographs and text relate the great camps and lodges of the Adirondacks, including Pine Knot, Uncas, Sagamore, Wonundra, and White Pine.