Gilbert Morris

Fourteen-year-old Leah Carter lives with her uncle in Virginia, tending to his illness and awaiting the end of the Civil War. As the hospitals fill, Uncle Silas volunteers the use of his home as a temporary medical center, and the two of them move to a house he owns in the country.

When Royal Carter enlists in the Union Army and his best friend signs up with the Confederates, the two young men struggle to come to grips with life's challenges.

Dixie Morris goes to live with her aunt, who is a doctor for the animals of the Royal Circus. Dixie meets the circus' white Bengal tiger, Stripes. Things aren't going well for Stripes. Is he sick?

"Fifteen-year-old Jeff Majors faces one difficulty after another as a drummer in the Confederate Army. But more than the Civil War is giving Jeff problems..."--Cover.

The war between North and South grinds on, while Jeff Majors and Leah Carter face new personal problems.

While living with her aunt who is a veterinarian for a circus and the caretaker of a gorilla that understands sign language, Dixie uses deceit to try to get a special pet.

When the Daystar Space Rangers take off to distant Morlandria, not even the captain knows that their secret assignment will involve a struggle between good and evil.