"My First Rodeo introduces readers to the rules, excitement, and tradition of the rodeo"-- Provided by publisher.

As he attempts to fulfil a list left behind by his deceased best friend, nineteen-year-old Case meets eighteen-year-old Winnie, a hardworking ranch hand with aspirations of her own, and together they embark on an unexpected journey as they chase down their rodeo dreams.

Danny, a rising rodeo star whose border collie, Banjo, has been wounded by neighbors, and Meg, who has a way with animals, come together to keep Banjo safe, aided by Danny's brother.

"Blacktop cowboys chronicles the 2004 rodeo season through the eyes of several charismatic steer wrestlers trying to make it back to rodeo's version of the Super Bowl - the National Finals Rodeo (NFR) in Las Vegas. Steer wrestling is an adrenaline rush like no other, one that entails riding like lightning into an arena, sliding off a horse while taking hold of a five-hundred-pound steer, and then wrestling the animal to the ground. The best cowboys...

"The newest winner of the Tony Hillerman Prize, a debut mystery set in the Southwest starring a former rodeo cowboy turned private investigator, told in a transfixingly original style. Rodeo Grace Garnet lives alone, save for his old dog, in a remote corner of Arizona known to locals as the Hole. He doesn't get many visitors, but a body found near his home has drawn police attention to his front door. The victim is not one of the many illegal immigrants...

When Joe and Frank Hardy stop a group of ranch hands from stealing the Welch family's prize horse, they are invited to help drive cattle back to the Welch ranch, where they encounter dangerous acts of sabotage.

Five years. That's how long Coyote and her dad, Rodeo, have lived on the road in an old school bus, criss-crossing the nation. It's also how long ago Coyote lost her mom and two sisters in a car crash. Coyote hasn't been home in all that time, but when she learns that the park in her old neighborhood is being demolished---the very same park where she, her mom, and her sisters buried a treasured memory box---she devises an elaborate plan to get her...

"The Professional Tarpon Rodeo is back on Sanibel Island, offering any celebrity contestant who lands a rare piebald tarpon a one-million-dollar prize. But marine biologist Doc Ford is certain that people are cheating to win. When an angler team illegally catches a tarpon to feed it to sharks for attention, Doc enlists the kids of Sharks Inc.--Luke, Maribel, and Sabina--to uncover their scheme. Would introverted Luke rather be trapped between a hammerhead...