Harold Keith

During a hard winter the father of a pioneering German family settling the Cherokee strip in Oklahoma freezes to death and his fourteen-year-old son must assume responsibility for the struggling family.

An Amish girl in Oklahoma adopts two coyote pups, but their mother steals them back and their subsequent activities put them in deadly peril.

The three Barnes children learn a great deal about birds and the neighborhood bully learns about friendship when they join forces to care for some orphaned bluejays.

A slightly built junior high school boy tries to persuade the coach to give him a chance on the basketball team.

Dismayed when he discovers he is assigned an all-girl basketball team, the new coach becomes increasingly committed to his players as he works with them.

Afraid to block and tackle and so small he cannot buy clothes to fit, Bennie is still determined to find a place on the elementary school football team.

Kansas sixteen-year-old Jeff Bussey is thrilled to join the Union army so he can fight against the Confederates, but he faces a difficult decision when he is sent to infiltrate enemy forces as a spy.