It's not so bad living a dog's life. Unless you're a cat. Then this baseball stuff started and Willy went bonkers. I never saw him act so crazy. On top of that, these two new cats moved into our neighborhood. Trouble was, tough-guy Roscoe and his cute fuzzy sister, Rikki, did not like dogs. I was showing them the sights when I suddenly pied the dogcatcher, just waiting to trap Willy as he raced around the field with a baseball in his mouth. But Roscoe...

Despite his uncourageous name, Mewkiss proves to be a strong and brave kitten during a crisis in which his mistress's life is threatened.

Living with his family in the rugged, often dangerous, Wyoming mountains in the 1860's, twelve-year-old Adam finds his courage put to the test when he is left in charge of the household during his stepfather's absence.

When the pup shows up at the farm, small and fuzzy with a floppy wet tongue and a bushy tail that's always wagging, no one knows where he's from. Motherless and hungry, he needs to be fed or he'll starve to death. Most boys would welcome such a dog into their lives; feed it and train it and raise itto be a good farm pet. But Ricky's different. Ever since he was attacked as a baby by a mad dog, he's been afraid of them.

Twelve-year-old Tom learns first-hand about honor, first when he is wrongly accused of lying at school, then when he faces the risk of losing a puppy he has come to love while helping his grandfather train hunting dogs, but writing to a new friend helps him sort his feelings and do the right thing.

Eleven-year-old Bailey has a reputation for being a coward until the prophecy given him by an Indian medicine man in 1899 in Texas comes true when Bailey encounters a bear in the mountains of Montana.

"After a young roadrunner is bitten by a rattlesnake, his feet swell to an enormous size. At first this seems to be a handicap as he stumbles around the desert and nearly ends up as a meal for a coyote. After taking the advice of a wise old tortoise, though, the roadrunner, now called Thunderfoot, undergoes an exercise program, making his legs and wings much stronger than the average roadrunner's. The newly pumped-up Thunderfoot hammers the local...

After having his nose scratched by a cat, pecked by a bird, bitten by a dog, and stung by a bee, J.C. the bird dog develops his own method for pointing quail that protects his delicate sniffer.

Brother and sister cats are taken in by a family and learn the pleasures and dangers of living alongside humans.

After moving to the country, thirteen-year-old Brad, who has always wanted a dog, adopts a motherless coyote.