In 1917, Marie and her children Betty and baby Ann are leaving Alaska for the winter by sleigh, when disaster strikes during a snowstorm.

After moving to a new home at the junk yard, Willie the mouse disobeys his parents, goes hiking by himself, and gets lost in the unfamiliar surroundings.

While wintering in Alaska, Salty the dog falls from an airplane and must survive until his master Zack finds him.

On Prince William Sound in Alaska, Denny rescues a baby seal hurt by an oil spill and watches it recover at a nearby animal hospital.

Based on a true story, a girl finds a homeless dog in a dump, visits him every day, and eventually saves his life.

Games of tag on the deck; swings tied to the masts; a floating farmyard filled with chickens and ducks and even a pig; exotic pets, including a mongoose, a monkey, a kangaroo; studying astronomy and celestial navigation under the stars and geography with firsthand visits all over the world. This was the childhood of the four Madsen children who made their home aboard a four-masted sailing bark that carried cargo in the 1800s. Based on the journal...