For Adam Reed, basketball is a passport. Adam's basketball skills have taken him from an orphanage in Poland to a loving adoptive mother in Minnesota. When he's tapped to play on a select AAU team along with some of the best players in the state, it just confirms that basketball is his ticket to the good life: to new friendships, to the girl of his dreams, to a better future.

"Thirteen-year-old Wes is on his first ever fishing trip to Leech Lake in northern Minnesota with his best friend Josh and Josh's family and he is more skeptical than enthusiastic--but when he hears the stories about catching a gigantic 'Muskie', he is hooked"--Title verso page.

"As part of his thirteenth birthday, Jimmy Benge is spending a week ice fishing with his friend, Ryan, in northern Minnesota at his family's lakeside home. One day they get permission to go out further on the lake to try for Northern pike, and Jimmy catches a beauty--but a sudden snow squall turns the situation dangerous. As the boys pack up to make their way back, Uncle Kenny's ATV flips over and he is injured. It is up to the boys to get everybody...