Tracks in the Snow is about a ten-year-old girl named Erin. It starts when her babysitter, Amy, doesn't come to babysit one night. Erin knows that something is wrong but no one believes her. Not her parents, not the police, not her teacher . . . However the oppurtunity to find Amy (Erin is determined she went to live in the old miner's cabin in the woods) comes up when she and Tiffany decide to do a project on animal tracks. Erin decides they should go into the woods to look for the tracks (and also Amy). However if she wants to keep looking she has to tell Tiffany the truth about why they're here. Tiffany believes Erin, unlike everyone else, and they keep looking for where Amy could be. But then a blizzard comes unexpectedly and Erin and Tiffany are stuck in the woods. Will they ever find Amy? And - more importantly - will they ever be able to get out of the woods?