Isolated on her mountain, Amber meets and befriends a girl from the city who gives her the determination to learn to read and write.

Reminiscences of the pleasures of life in the mountains as a child.

"When Heidi, an orphan, goes to live with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps, no one can imagine the solitary old man caring for a child. But the two grow to love each other, and Heidi blossoms in her new home. Johanna Spyri's charming story-and spirited heroine-have won hearts for more than a century." -Provided by Publisher

The summer before seventh grade, five best friends sneak out to watch a meteor shower, but soon find themselves on the run from a violent mountain clan.

A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.

Mountain man Washburn insists on looking on the bright side of things, even as disaster after disaster befalls him.

An eccentric schoolteacher and a widow-lady babysitter are the heroines in Donald Davis' two all-time most-requested stories from his book: Listening for the Crack of Dawn.