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An amusing account of Columbus's determined but slightly miscalculated attempts to find a new ocean route to the Indies describes his four voyages across the Ocean Sea.

After Marty Preston worked so hard to earn the dog Shiloh, he had hoped that his troubles with Judd Travers were over.

Jesse Aarons is in the 5th grade and has trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school.

Harry Potter never been the star of a Quidditch team, scoring points while riding a broom far above the ground.

At her birth, Ella of Frell was given a foolish fairy's gift -- the 'gift' of obedience.

When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school.

Arthur's new puppy causes problems when it tears the living room apart, wets on everything, and refuses to wear a leash; and Buster wonders if he has made an archaeological discovery when he finds a very interesting bone.

Mike Mulligan was sure that his steam shovel, Mary Anne, could dig more in one day than 100 men could dig in a week! But one trerrible day- they lost their job.

It's Christmas Eve, and you're about to roller coaster up and down the mountains, slip slide over ice fields, teeter across mile-high bridges and be served hot chocolate by singing waiters more astonishing than any you can imagine.

George likes to please his mother, but when she tells him to bark, he says "meow" and "quack-quack" and "oink" and "moo" - until she takes him to the vet, who finally figures out what's going on with George.

Young Winnie Foster, stifled by the formality of her proper life and her domineering mother, escapes into the woods only to get lost.

Wilbur was lovingly raised by a girl named Fern. But now he's a barn pig.

When Marty Preston comes across a young beagle in the hills behind his home, it's love at first sight -- and also big trouble.

Twelve-year-old Ted is determined to find a living Truffula Tree to impress a girl and ends up discovering the story of the Lorax, a creature who speaks on behalf of the trees.

His wife and children were starving, so the black sharecropper stole a ham to feed them.