Though only twelve years old and without a day spent in a classroom, June is just as comfortable reading and thinking deeply as she is hunting and chopping wood. Thanks to her rustic but joyful life in...

Nobody runs farther and faster than Mike Beck. After all, he's had a lot of practice running from his own past of absentee parents and loneliness. In order to survive, Mike had to develop a fierce independence...

Rodeo either makes you rugged and hard as the Washington mountains or it leaves you broken and beaten. Grady, full of rage, hopes to use rodeo to make a name for himself with his ability to take punishment....

"John Prescott Chaplin suggested the title for this book—Man of the Oval—very early in the writing process. When I asked why that title in particular, he explained that the oval shape of the track, combined...