Four year old Tom is sad and lonesome. His older brother has started school and is gone all day. Tom passes the time playing alone and watching the birds in his backyard. He makes a wonderful discovery that cheers him up. This is a heart-warming, low-key story that is targeted for youngsters from three to six years old.

Two brothers, twelve and ten years old, live on a ranch among other ranches nestled in enclosed meadows walled in by the high Rocky Mountains. This year they are invited to join the spring cattle roundup. They are joined by a young girl from a neighboring ranch for this fun-filled, work-filled expedition. The adventure becomes more exciting, and dangerous, when rustlers are encountered stealing the cattle. The youngsters grow up quickly faced with the challenges of this, their first cowboy summer. The book is targeted for children six to twelve year old.

My Father and the Pirates is a story told by a six year old boy about an adventure his father had when he was a young boy. This exciting event was filled with pirates, treasure chests, sailing ships, and danger And it all happened to the six year old's father when he was very little. The boy tells how his father was captured by pirates, and how he outwitted the dangerous Captain Bones. It is a story that every boy or girl can imagine his own father living. The target audience for My Father and the Pirates: all youngsters between six and ten years old.

An eleven year old boy is cast into the path of the advancing Union army in the closing days of the Civil War. Dudley is asked to ride to warn the caravan of wagons bearing the family and its salvaged goods. Sherman is headed for their hiding place. To reach them, Dudley must cross the flooded Catawba River. To find a crossing he must travel through areas controlled by the Union, and to cross the river just ahead of the main body of Sherman's Army. The recounting of this boy's adventures is a true family story, told through the eyes of the boy. The events are all real; only the conversations...

Rooster covers one year in the lives of two twelve year old boys, living in oak-wooded foothills along with Rooster's dog Flitter and seven pups. The story recounts the boys' battles with two persistent antagonists: a fierce old boar hog named Old Lop Ear, and a weird old recluse named Garvey Bockenweiler. The stories are a mixture of real life adventures of the two young boys, and fantastic constructs of one boy's fertile imagination. The recurring conflict with the ferocious hog and the cantankerous old man are resolved in ways that teach the young protagonist and his best friend strong...

In this sequel to Rooster, the two twelve year old boys, Rooster and Cotton, continue their adventures in the oak-covered hills and farm land they enjoy. They meet a new girl, just moved into the area, who introduces them to horses. They make strong steps toward growing up, and learn new lessons from these adventures. Again, these stories are targeted for youngsters from eight to twelve years old.