In 1882, ten-year-old Emma and her family, along with other Russian Jewish immigrants, arrive in Cotopaxi, Colorado, where they face inhospitable conditions as they attempt to start an agricultural colony, and lonely Emma is comforted by the horse whose life she saved.

In 1896 Ruby Mae Oliver, her father, and her best friend, Maude, the donkey are stranded in Cripple Creek when Ruby's father decides that she need a proper upbringing and sends her to school.

In 1864, Hides Inside, a mute thirteen-year-old Cheyenne, wants nothing more than to be taken seriously as a hunter and warrior, but after witnessing the Sand Creek Massacre he must choose for himself between fighting the brutal white soldiers or working toward peace.

Ruby May Oliver lives a good life on the rugged Colorado mountain trails of the 1890's with her pa. As the author tells us, Ruby "had faced mountain lions, grizzlies, wolves, rattlesnakes, and angry badgers; she'd hiked miles through a snowstorm, had her toes frozen, her nose frost-nipped, and climbed to the top of tall peaks." In "Trouble Returns", the third in the series, she faces her greatest challenge yet--school. With the help of Maude and Trouble,...

Trouble on the Tracks, the second Ruby and Maude Adventure book, returns readers to the Cripple Creek mining town of 1896. Ruby May Oliver and her donkey and best friend, Maude, find a new friend when a cat named Trouble entwines itself around Maudes legs and Rubys heart. Trouble and the adventurous eleven-year-olds Ruby and Maude try to stay out of trouble during the chaos following two fires in one week that have nearly destroyed the town. Can...

"It's Christmas Eve 1896 in the boomtown of Cripple Creek, Colorado. Eleven-year-old Ruby and her donkey, Maude, search the town for Maude's missing four-month-old foal. Surprises await them at the end of the journey, and the gifts Ruby shares along the way demonstrate that the true spirit and joy of Christmas is giving"--