Daisy, the donkey, was born with weak legs that prevent her from doing normal things. Adam has a similar problem and decides to enter Daisy in a derby that no one thinks she will win.

In 1896 Ruby Mae Oliver, her father, and her best friend, Maude, the donkey are stranded in Cripple Creek when Ruby's father decides that she need a proper upbringing and sends her to school.

Ruby May Oliver lives a good life on the rugged Colorado mountain trails of the 1890's with her pa. As the author tells us, Ruby "had faced mountain lions, grizzlies, wolves, rattlesnakes, and angry badgers; she'd hiked miles through a snowstorm, had her toes frozen, her nose frost-nipped, and climbed to the top of tall peaks." In "Trouble Returns", the third in the series, she faces her greatest challenge yet--school. With the help of Maude and Trouble,...

"Rescue in Poverty Gulch transports the reader to 1896 Cripple Creek, Colorado, where gold was in the hills and the town was booming. Ruby May Oliver and her donkey, Maude, are happy with things just the way they are, traveling with Pa to mining camps to sell candlesticks to miners. However, life changes drastically when Ruby and her Pa are stranded in Cripple Creek. Spending days in a schoolhouse when she already knows her numbers and how to read,...