When bully Bryce Billings bets Fish Finelli that he can't find Captain Kidd's legendary long-lost treasure, Fish and his friends embark on a quest to find real-life pirate treasure. Between sneaking into the library to track down Captain Kidd's map, stowing away on a boat, and trespassing on an island, Fish and his friends have their work cut out for them. But will Fish actually be able to find Captain Kidd's booty and win the bet? Appropriate for both boys and girls, this first book in th...

Historical novel, by the author of Treasure Island. According to Wikipedia: "Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 18503 December 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. He was the man who "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins", as G. K. Chesterton put it."

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883) by Howard Pyle is a novel that recounts the adventures of Robin Hood and his companions known as the Merry Men. People admired them for their humane, though illegal, deeds of stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. Robin Hood had been an outlaw since his eighteenth birthday, during which he won an archery contest. The losing contestants aimed at Robin, but he escaped, killing one of the assailants in the process. Ever since then, the town Sh...

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Two sixth graders are magically swept away to Treasure Island, where they must match wits with legendary pirate Long John Silver.When best friends Devin and Frankie—short for Francine—get a tough assignment in their English class, they know there's only one way to handle it. Read the book? Nah, that's for suckers. Devin and Frankie just take the novel to the library and toss it through the magic metal detector, which sucks them into the world of the book, ...

Twins, Nia and Ngaire are self-reliant, intensely interested in the wildlife of the land and sea in the part of New Guinea where they live. Since they were quite young, the twins have accompanied their patrol officer on many trips through the bush and by sea to the small islands that abound.At eleven years of age they are sent to boarding school in Australia where they find the life style rather stifling to their free spirits. At last the long summer holidays arrive and the twins ca...

It was late evening when Jake's train arrived at Kings Cross. The train was met by a massive jostling crowd. Jake picked up his rucksack and moved to the carriage door. A railway guard blew his whistle. A double line of police then formed, holding back the crowds, and forming a passage from the carriage door to a small glass door marked 1st Class Waiting Room. "Her Ladyship is waiting for you in there,your Lordship," said the guard respectfully'knuckling hkis forehead. As Jake appeared at ...

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This is an adventurous fairy tale that appeals to all age groups. In the Happy Kingdom a teenage prince, Adian, is under the spell of a dark wizard and is unable to feel any love in his heart and subsequently travels around the world in search of it. He meets witches, dragons, magicians, trolls, elves, dwarfs, a flying teacher and even a pig that learned how to fly, and all his courageous adventures take place in a surreal fantasy world that is just off our dimension. Are you ready for a j...

Land ho! The adorable mice pirates are on their way home when they encounter a serious storm.A gust of wind blows away the map and causes Captain Riff Raff to get a big WHAP on the head, making their voyage a bit more complicated. The mice pirates must put their paws together to find their way!I Can Read books are designed to encourage a love of reading. Riff Raff: Can't You See? We're Lost at Sea! is a Level 2 book, geared for kids who read on their own b...

little Jony was so happy to show all of the visiting children who came for a visit on the farm.There were emus, ostriches, turkeys on the ranch, and the farm adjacent to the ranch was a farm with horses, cows eagerly waiting for the children to visit.

Sail. Salvage. Survive. Toby and Ayla have to infiltrate a sect of sun worshippers to steal the equipment their ships need. They enter a trial to be chosen as the Sun and the Moon, a position of great honour for the sect. As the trial commences, Toby and Ayla discover the true cost of failure. But there are other young couples who are equally desperate to win… Can Toby and Ayla survive days without sleep, hours sitting in the blistering sun and a deadly maze? They'll need to work together ...