Brian Robeson is the 13-year-old son of divorced parents. As he travels from Hampton on a Cessna 406 bush plane to visit his father in the oil fields of Northern Canada for the summer, his plane crashes and the pilot is killed. Left alone in the Canadian wilderness, Brian must attempt to survive with only a hatchet he salvages from the wreck to assist him.

Book 2 in Brian's Saga

Brian Robeson, a 13-year-old boy who spent 54 days surviving alone in the Canadian wilderness the previous summer, is hired by the government to again live in the woods and survive using only his wits so the military can learn his survival techniques. Though reluctant at first, Brian eventually agrees. This time, Brian sets out for a remote Canadian location accompanied by Derek Holtzer, a government psychologist.

Book 3 in Brian's Saga

In Hatchet, Brian, the sole survivor of the plane crash, learns to rely on his intelligence, his instincts, and his hatchet to cling to life. And, as thousands of listeners know, Brian's perseverance pays off - he's rescued at the end of the summer.

But what would have happened if Brian hadn't been rescued then? What if Brian had been left to confront the most dangerous thing he had faced since the plane crash, his deadliest enemy - winter?

As listeners of Hatchet, The River, and Brian's Winter know, Brian Robeson is the ultimate survivor. Alone in the wilderness, he faced the elements and lived on the edge of death. Now that he's back in civilization, he can't make sense of ordinary life. High school leaves him feeling more isolated than when he was by himself in the wild.

He misses the woods so much that he'd go crazy if he couldn't dream of getting ready to go back in. But going back is no dream; for Brian, it's the answer.

At fourteen John Barron is asked, like his father and his father's father before him, to spend the summer taking care of their sheep in the haymeadow. John will be alone, except for two horses, four dogs, and six thousand sheep.

John doesn't feel up to the task, but he hopes that if he succeeds, he will finally please his undemonstrative father. Soon, John finds that the adage "things just happen to sheep" is true when the river floods, coyotes attack, and one of his dogs is hurt.

Yet through it all John relies on his own resourcefulness, ingenuity, and courage to bring the family's flock safely home. 

When artist Mick Strum is commissioned by a small midwestern town to create a war memorial, he begins with the premise that, as Katherine Anne Porter felt, art is what you find when the ruins are cleared away. "Monuments have to be a certain way for a certain place." As he studies the town and its people, he comes to an understanding of them - knowledge of which they themselves were not necessarily aware.

13 year old Jesse Rodriguez has learned everything he needs to know about skydiving by working at the small airport near his home. As soon as he turns sixteen, he'll make his first jump. His new friend, Robin, is training to skydive, even though she really prefers photography to parachutes. One day, while visiting Jesse at the airstrip, she unintentionally takes some pictures of several drug dealers disembarking from a small plane. Suddenly, the two teenagers find themselves on a flight that may force them to make their first jump much sooner than they expect.

Book 3 in The Tucket Adventures

Tucket's Ride is set two years after Francis Tucket was abducted by the Pawnee and then saved by the Mountain Man Jason Grimes. Tucket is now trying to get to Oregon via Mexico and gets tangled with armies pursuing the Mexican War.

Book 4 in The Tucket Adventures

This book is mainly about Tucket and his adventures to escape the Comancheros. He is in need of food and water when the story begins, but his luck gets better. He finds a deer for food and moccasins, and finds gold, showing that he is having a change of fortune.