Atlas James has lost her way. In a last-ditch effort to pull her life together, she's working on a community service program rehabbing trails in the Western Sierras. The only plus is that the days are so exhausting that Atlas might just be tired enough to forget that this was one of her dad's favorite places in the world. Before cancer stole him from her life, that is. Using real names is forbidden on the trail. So Atlas becomes Maps, and with her...

With the help of an eccentric ex-governor, a teenaged boy searches for his missing cousin in the Florida wilds.

"When a fire engulfs an Oregon forest, a group of trapped hikers must find another way out"--

Brother detectives Frank and Joe return to dangerous Black Bear Mountain to help locate a scientist gone missing from a remote research station.

When Jake, thirteen, and Taylor, eleven, learn that their mother is still alive but facing grave danger if they do not return the money they took from her abusive boyfriend, Bull, they leave their father, who is not eager to help, and set off on their own again for a late autumn trek from Wyoming to Pittsburgh.

Faced with the loss of their beloved dog, Cody, brothers Jake, fourteen, and Taylor, twelve, set out to find their grandmother living off the grid in the Sierra Nevada mountains, and discover a lumber company trying to harass her off her property.