Fred Brenner

Explains how the animal and human inhabitants of the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, including a mountain lion, a roadrunner, a coyote, a tortoise, and members of the Papago Indian tribe, adapt to and survive the desert's merciless heat.

Brief text and pictures introduce more than twenty-five common birds.

When he is sent home alone for misbehaving in church, Tommy discovers that his house is a station on the underground railroad.