Book One, the beginning, introduces the main character Barney Bear. The story details her train ride north away from where the civil war fighting takes place, and the adventures she has meeting new friends along the way to Beary Towne.
Strange and unusual things happen to Barney Bear that she does not understand why. She has red fur and green eyes and looks different from all the other bears. She doesn't know that she belongs to the red fur clan and that she is destined for a life that is different from what she has known living with her grandparents in Richmond, Virginia.
Her grandparents know she is different and have a journal about her parents and the red fur clan. They have not explained the family history to her because they believe she is too young for anything unusual or special to happen to her. However, things do happen on her train ride north through Indian Territory. Her life changes directions although she does not understand why all of this is happening only to her and no one else.
She meets a Chief Furry Paws who bestows the gift of knowledge and the gift of the google to Barney Bear. They are gifts that she does not understand how to use and she does not understand why she cannot take them with her. Barney Bear's friend Leonardo tries to help her figure out what happened to her one night during their train trip through Indian Territory. He has sketches of the evening events that were seen by all the train passengers.
At the Indian village with Chief Furry Paws Barney Bear sees flashes of her future when she looks down on the platform that she is standing on while the Chief gives her instructions. She does not realize it is the future until later when she is given a puppy named 4-Paws, a horse named Patience, and after Grandma Bear has sewn a riding outfit for her.
The Silverback Bears who reside on Magic Mountain are friends with Chief Furry Paws. Together they help guide Barney Bear as she learns and acquires her six guns of knowledge, understanding, confidence, determination, honesty, and respect. She learns about these virtues through her travels and adventures across the country in future stories.
After the war Barney Bear returns to Richmond, Virginia, with her friend Leonardo to set up a school for orphan bears. She is so successful that the Bear Council wants her to travel to another city and set up a school in Atlanta. However, she faces trouble from a friend named Snuggie. Snuggie is someone she met on the train ride north and a schoolmate who attended the Beary Towne Academy. He and Leonardo gave Barney Bear a puppy named 4-Paws as a birthday gift while they were at Beary Towne. Snuggie wants 4-Paws back.
There are 25 more books planned for the series. They are educational and nonviolent fun books for grades second through fifth grade. Other books will see her learning and acquiring the magical guns, her life travels and the new friends she meets along the way. There will be funny stories and serious ones where she must apply what she learned through the special red fur bear clan's life.
