Twelve-year-old Belle Martin and her family move to Mingo, Colorado, in 1910 when the U.S. government offers 320 acres of land free to homesteaders.

"History surrounds us, but we don't always know where to find it. Would we even think to look in our own backyards? In author Ronald S. Martinez Sr.'s book, The Prairie Monster, two children are playing, just like they do every day. But this time, they discover tracks that resemble the lizard creatures they play with. In their imaginations, they make connections, visualizing a creature stranger than reality. But with the help of a priest, who shares...

When Skye, who lives with her aunt in Boulder, Colorado, turns seventeen and is suddenly pursued by two boys who are polar opposites, secrets of her true identity--and destiny--begin to emerge.

When the mysterious Eldritch reveal their true agenda, Arlo Finch must choose whether to save his friends and family, or save the Long Woods.

"Determined to recover his family's mules, fifteen-year-old Owen is joined by his kid brother and Telluride's notorious marshal in pursuit of a rustler--all the way to Butch Cassidy's hideout"--

A troubled Indian boy goes to live with an elderly rancher whose caring ways help the boy become a man.

Margaret records in her journal the many wondrous sites she and her family visit on their vacation to Colorado, including the Garden of the Gods, the Royal Gorge, the Continental Divide, and the Black Canyon.

When seventeen-year-old Alyssa is disowned by her father for being a lesbian, she is sent off to a small town in Colorado to live with the mother she has never known, where she is forced to come to terms with herself and her family.

Told from their own viewpoints, seventeen-year-old Jill, in grief over the loss of her father, and Mandy, nearly nineteen, are thrown together when Jill's mother agrees to adopt Mandy's unborn child but nothing turns out as they had anticipated.

In the Colorado Territory in 1875, orphan Margret and her older sister Libby are staying with the kind-hearted Mrs. Fredrickson when Margret finds an injured horse, which she nurses back to health and wants to keep.