Shriver's text invites readers to notice more than 50 heroic deeds in 10 illustrations. A hospital scene shows Ten Hidden Heroes working night and day, nursing others back to health until they are okay, including medical staff members reading an X-ray and taking blood pressure.

Hunter Higgins is 12, and it feels like his whole life has been leading to this weekend: his first deer hunt. His family is a hunting family, and their land in the Idaho wilderness has been its emotional center for decades.

When he was growing up, Peter Shipman saw his fatheronce a fiery activist for civil rights and against the Vietnam Wardescend into an angry, liquor-fueled viewer of fight-the-system movies. Admiring his father's principles, if not the man himself, Peter becomes determined to wage similar battles . . .