With a giant grizzly on a killer rampage, Smoke Jensen, when the gun-toting locals head off to hunt down the beast, must defend the half-empty town when bank robbers, a wild game hunter and a traveling medicine man arrive, leading him into the deadliest trap of all.

"In a lonely valley, deep in the mountains, a ranger watches over the last surviving grizzly bear. With the natural world exhausted and in tatters, Ben has dedicated himself to protecting this single fragment of the wild. One night, he hears voices in the valley--poachers, come to hunt his bear. A heart-pounding chase begins, crossing forests and mountainsides, passing centuries of human ruins. Sometimes hunter, sometimes prey--Ben must choose the...

The Landon family travels to Glacier National Park to investigate why grizzly bear cubs are disappearing and becomes involved with a ten-year-old Mexican runaway boy.

Eleven-year-old Bailey has a reputation for being a coward until the prophecy given him by an Indian medicine man in 1899 in Texas comes true when Bailey encounters a bear in the mountains of Montana.

When eleven-year-old Melody Vega and her family visit Glacier National Park for their annual trip in 1967, Melody has a frightening encounter with a grizzly bear, making her a part of one of the deadliest seasons in the history of America's national parks. Includes an author's note, information about grizzlies, tips for encountering a grizzly bear, and advice for protecting the wilderness and its wildlife.

Enveloping readers in a big bear hug, this humorous and heartwarming story follows the adventures of a well-meaning grizzly bear whose good intentions complicate her forest friends' lives in laugh-out-loud moments.

In 1974, when thirteen-year-old Charlie Hall's mother dies and his father retreats into silent grief, Charlie finds himself drifting, nearly friendless, through a northern Idaho junior high school but when a grizzly bear saves his life, Charlie forms an unusual friendship that changes his life.