Tom Gnagey

10 to 14 year old readers: (Best read in order) In Book Four the twelve year olds from 1870 Kansas - Jericho and Red Eagle - take a horseback trip to look at land on which to build their first home for orphaned children. They reunite with the Arapaho boy, Rising Sun (Book Two), and along the way encounter gold thieves, kidnappers, a lost young boy whose parents have been taken by bad guys, a kid with a broken leg who is trapped inside a cave, cattle rustlers, a tornado, a man sucked into quicksand, and a woman from back east whose life is threatened by her evil brother. Once again the boy's quick wits and exceptional skill with bows and arrows save the day. It makes for an exciting 125 pages.

Del is fifteen and hates his name, well quite honestly, Del hates most everything about himself and most everybody else. He happens onto an old man (a writer) in a park who, in contrast, really likes himself and most everybody else. They talk, they share their lives, they grow, they write a book together. This is a book of wonder-filled conversations about how to build a good, successful, and helpful life. It is about finding hope and the strength and ability to make personal changes. It is a book about discovering who and what a young person wants to become and learning how to navigate a path that will lead him or her in that direction. The story is based on a real experience.