From confronting environmental challenges like the effect of snowmobiles in Alaska's Denali park and speedboaters injuring manatees in Florida's Everglades, to encountering dangerous wildlife like grizzly bears in Montana's Glacier National Park or wild white mustangs in Utahs Zion, the Landons adventures will keep kids on the edge of their seats while they learn about our countrys natural heritage and the role we all have in understanding and protecting it for the future.

Award-winning author Gloria Skurzynski has written more than 30 children's books. Her non-fiction book, Almost the Real Thing, won the American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award. She has written several nonfiction books for National Geographic, including Are We Alone, an NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book for Young People and an IRA/CBC Young Adults' Choice for 2006. She lives in Boise, ID.