Papa Bear, the world's greatest canoe expert, decides to accompany the younger Bears as they try to learn to earn their Bear Scout badges by shooting the rapids of the Great Roaring River.

When North Carolina fourteen-year-old Dylan Sands joins his fifteen-year-old cousin Rio in running the Rio Grande River, they face a tropical storm and a fugitive kidnapper.

"When sickness decimates his fishing camp, an orphan named Leif flees north in a cedar canoe, journeying along a brutal but beautiful coastline"--Title verso page.

"Sami's family is finally off on a long-planned duck hunting trip in the Boundary Waters. The first few days of hunting are perfect. And then the bad weather rolls in. Caught on the lake, they are almost to shore when Seb and Kathleen's canoe capsizes. Sami and Carlos help right the canoe and the family continues toward shore"--