Juan “Johnnie” Rico, who joined the Mobile Infantry to fight the alien Arachnids (“Bugs”), becomes an officer commanding his own platoon, Rico’s Roughnecks.

Matt Hallowell, a twelve-year-old left alone to guard his family’s cabin in the Maine wilderness in 1768, is befriended by Attean, a Penobscot boy who teaches him to survive.

Kira, a gifted weaver with a twisted leg, learns that the Council of Guardians keeps her and other artists in comfort only to control their talents and shape the village’s history.

In this alternate sequel to Hatchet, Brian Robeson is not rescued at the end of summer and must survive the brutal Canadian winter alone.

Louis, a trumpeter swan born without a voice, learns to read and write and to play a stolen trumpet his father took from a music shop.

Sam Gribley, a boy who ran away from his crowded New York City home to live alone in the Catskill Mountains in a hollow tree, becomes famous after newspapers write about the “wild boy.” At the end of his second year, his whole family arrives to live with him, and his father plans to build a house, ending Sam’s solitary life in the wild.

The boy’s father, a Black sharecropper jailed for stealing a ham to feed his family, comes home years later crippled from a mining accident in a prison camp.

Miyax, a thirteen-year-old Inupiat girl who survived alone on the Alaskan tundra by learning to live with a wolf pack, discovers that her long-lost father, Kapugen, is alive.

Juror Nicholas Easter and his partner Marlee, who secretly manipulated their way onto the jury in a lawsuit against a tobacco company, steer the jury to a huge verdict against Big Tobacco.

Rudy Baylor, a newly licensed lawyer, wins a $50 million verdict against the insurance company Great Benefit for denying a dying young man, Donny Ray Black, the leukemia treatment that might have saved him.