After finishing the second grade Toby, in search of friends and interesting pets, goes trucking with Uncle Dan and finds that following God is the biggest adventure of all.

Roads are busy places, especially with characters like Big Truck exploring them! In this charming fiction title, readers meet Big Truck and the machines he calls his friends, including tankers, dump trucks, log trucks, garbage trucks, and more. Readers will delight in this title’s fantastic, bright photographs and accessible text, which help reinforce the beginning concepts discussed. Playful rhymes and an info-vocabulary feature make this volume a perfect choice for young readers and for adults and children to share and explore together.

Teenage Toby lived with his grandmother. When she died suddenly, arrangements were made for him to spend the summer in Dallas, Texas, with his only living relative, his uncle Mike. While waiting at the bus terminal, he noticed two kids trying to hide from a dirty, unkempt man, who smelled of booze. When the man was out of sight, Toby asked the teenage girl and her younger brother why the man was looking for them. The girl, Cindy, hesitantly explained that he was their step father, he beat their mother who was now in the hospital, and he said he would kill them for calling 911 and turning him in. They were clearly scared and Toby wanted to help if he could. Toby convinced Cindy and her brother, Tommy, to come with him to Dallas, where he was sure Uncle Mike would know what to do. There was a long wait before their bus departure time, so the three kids ran back to Cindy and Tommy's house where they quickly packed some clothes and found what money they could. Back at the bus terminal they purchased one-way tickets to Dallas, and their Summer of Adventure began.

This is the actual story of a little girl and a little pony. They were both very young when the little girl's grandmother bought the pony for her. The grandmother, a horse trainer and riding instructor, began the pony's training right away. She soon began teaching the little girl how to care for the pony and how to drive it with his cart. The goal was for them to be able to participate in their town's Christmas parade. The story is about the love, trust, and determination of a very young girl to share a special occasion with her best friend, her little pony; thus, The Adventures of Sam and Buck: The Christmas Parade.