Will Weaver Books in Order

Billy Baggs's talent for baseball offers a possible escape from the pressures of his family's Minnesota dairy farm. Encouraged by a coach, he must balance opportunity with his father's expectations and grief over the loss of his brother.

A troubling letter brings Guy Pehrsson back to the Minnesota farm he left years earlier. Reconnecting with family and his childhood friend draws him into a land dispute between white farmers and Ojibwe residents, testing old loyalties.

Stories set among Midwestern farms and small towns follow people confronting hardship, stubborn hopes, and the demands of ordinary life. Changing rural landscapes frame encounters that reveal both vulnerability and resilience in those often overlooked by others.

With his father in jail, Billy Baggs must sacrifice baseball to help run the family farm. His mother proposes a different solution: building a field in a pasture and inviting neighbors to form a team of their own.

Billy Baggs's rivalry with wealthy pitcher King Kenwood becomes violent as high school approaches. Determined to keep both players on the team, their coach insists they spend a week together, turning competition into an uncomfortable test of cooperation.

After catastrophic volcanic eruptions transform daily life, Miles Newell persuades his family to leave suburban Minneapolis for their woodland cabin. Traveling in a vehicle he invented, they discover that danger and desperation extend far beyond the cities.

Sixteen-year-old Jed Berg seems to have everything going his way until a girl calling herself Gertrude makes unsettling claims about his father. Searching for the truth forces him to question his family's stability and his own judgment.

Doug Ohman's photographs document Minnesota barns built from varied materials across different eras. Weaver's accompanying narrative follows a barn through generations of a farming family, connecting the buildings' changing fortunes with work, settlement, and agricultural life.

At his mother's urging, sixteen-year-old Paul takes a summer gas-station job instead of working only on the family farm. Encounters with customers challenge the assumptions of his religious upbringing and reveal the hidden complexities of his Minnesota town.

Fourteen stories follow people navigating a changing Midwest, from an older couple’s final road trip to a farmer investigating abandoned homes. New work and selected earlier tales examine rural traditions, conflicting values, and the pressures transforming communities.

Fifteen-year-old David hides an unusual physical ability from everyone, including his foster parents, while enduring scrutiny and bullying. Friendship with spirited Cheetah challenges his fear of discovery and raises questions about identity, acceptance, and the costs of fitting in.

Rainouts elsewhere bring prominent drivers to Headwaters Speedway for a crowded Saturday race. As young racers tackle mechanical problems and competitive ambitions, Melody Walters worries that approaching weather could determine the future of her father's struggling dirt track.

A corporate sponsor gives young racer Trace Bonham a powerful car and a chance at professional success. The opportunity also demands leaving his father's vehicle, hometown speedway, and important relationships behind, making advancement more complicated than he expected.

Trace Bonham's professional racing career brings publicity and an impressive winning streak, but rumors about his engine raise doubts. Suspecting his crew may be cheating, he must investigate and decide what responsibility he bears for the team's methods.

Weaver reflects on hunting, family history, and rural life through personal stories spanning several generations. His children's lack of interest in the hunt prompts questions about inherited traditions, his relationship with his father, and what families choose to preserve.

Sheltering in a remote cabin after volcanic disasters, the Newell family struggles with scarce resources and suspicious neighbors. When Miles can no longer guide their survival, his younger sister Sarah must take greater responsibility as winter approaches.

A Norwegian immigrant family arrives in North Dakota in 1906 hoping to own land and prosper. After tragedy and a powerful man’s crime threaten them, seventeen-year-old Jenny Haugen leads her siblings in a struggle for independence and justice.