Thrilled when his cameraman father invites him along on an assignment in China, seventeen-year-old Alex Jackson does not suspect that they will become part of the great historical events sweeping China in the spring of 1989.

When Jamie Macnair, a city boy, comes to live with his uncle in the northland, an Indian boy adopts him as his brother and teaches him the ways of the wilderness.

Stunned when his parents' intention to get a divorce begins to tear his family apart, fifteen-year-old Chris enlists the help of an idealistic lawyer to stop them in court.