In this classic frontier adventure, Lois Lenskireconstructsthe real life story of Mary Jemison, who was captured in a raid asyoung girl and raised amongst the Seneca Indians. Meticulouslyresearched and illustrated with many detailed drawings, this noveloffers an exceptionally vivid and personal portrait of NativeAmerican life and customs.
Doctor Dolittle heads for the high seas in perhaps the mostamazing adventure ever experienced by man or animal. Told bynine-and-a-half-year-old Tommy Stubbins, crewman and futurenaturalist, the voyages of Doctor Dolittle and his company leadthem to Spidermonkey Island. Along with his faithful friends,Polynesia the parrot and Chee-Chee the monkey, Doctor Dolittlesurvives a perilous shipwreck and lands on the mysterious floatingisland. There he meets the wondrous Great Glass See Snail who holdsthe key to the greatest mystery of all.
Meet Ginger Pye, the smartest dog you'll ever know. Jerry Pyeand his sister, Rachel, feel pretty smart themselves for buyingGinger. It was the best dollar they ever spent. Ginger stealseverybody's heart . . . until someone steals him !
刚从蒙大拿转学到佛罗里达的罗伊，在校车上惨遭校园恶霸唐纳的欺负。不过，他却很感激唐纳。要不是唐纳把他的脸压扁在窗户上，他就不会看到那个在街上跑步的赤脚男孩。 一连几天，同样的时间，罗伊都看到了那个赤脚跑步的男孩。一天早上，在好奇心的驱使下，他中途下车，偷偷跟踪那个男孩，跑过几个街区，跑进灌木丛，男孩却消失得无影无踪。一个上学时间在街上溜达的男孩，一定有什么秘密。 接着镇上发生了一连串离奇的事件，松饼屋预定地遭人恶意破坏，先是拔掉测量杆、在巡逻警车上喷黑漆、临时厕所里出现短吻鳄鱼、百步蛇咬伤看管工地的洛威拿犬……这些事件和赤脚男孩有关吗？他究竟是什么来历？当罗伊知道赤脚男孩的真正目的，他决定要挺身而出，助对方一臂之力。
Readers today are still fascinated by "Nat," aneighteenth-century nautical wonder and mathematical wizard.Nathaniel Bowditch grew up in a sailor"s world—Salem in the earlydays, when tall-masted ships from foreign ports crowded thewharves. But Nat didn"t promise to have the makings of a sailor; hewas too physically small. Nat may have been slight of build, but noone guessed that he had the persistence and determination to mastersea navigation in the days when men sailed only by "log, lead, andlookout." Nat"s long hours of study and observation, collected inhis famous work, The American Practical Navigator (also known asthe "Sailors" Bible"), stunned the sailing community and made him aNew England hero.
纽约男孩山姆在五月的一天离开了家，他要到克斯奇山寻找曾祖父遗留下来的葛博礼农场。一把小刀、一捆绳索、一把斧头、一些打火石和钢片是他为这次出走准备的所有东西。对山姆而言，这不是一次短暂的旅行或露营，他是要像树一样在森林中长久地、独立地生存。 跟随着山姆深入森林的脚步，“野外生存”这四个字渐渐地不再是一种抽象的符号和虚幻的想象，它的真实、艰辛和迷人如同磁石一般吸引着所有没有勇气和机会进入的我们。 山姆是否能适应野人般的探险生活呢？在这段山居岁月里，他有了哪些危险经历，又积累了哪些野外求生经验呢？让读者感到意外的，还是本书的精彩结局！ Terribly unhappy in his family’s crowded New York Cityapartment, Sam Gribley runs away to the solitude—and danger—of themountains, where he finds a side of himself he never knew.
