After the townspeople of Hamelin refuse to pay the gypsy piper for ridding their city of rats, the piper's young apprentice discovers his master's horrifying scheme to revenge himself on Hamelin's children. Reprint....
While taking one last driving tour of Wyoming before moving out of state, eleven-year-old Angela accompanies her beloved seventy-eight-year-old great-aunt Hil to Yellowstone National Park, where Hil's strange behavior suggests she may be losing her s...
A behind-the-scenes, photographic study of the postal system and its importance as a mode of communication follows a letter from its initial addressing, stamping, and mailing; through processing in the postal system; to final delivery at its destinat...
Distraught over losing her dog to the Animal Control Division, Darcy Kane steps into the Virtual Reality Rent-a-Memory machine that her neighbor often uses and becomes trapped inside with a virtual tornado when the machine goes haywire....
Imagine a life of virtual reality -- a childhood contained in a controlled environment, with no human contact or experiences outside of the world of computer-generated images.Corgan has been genetically engineered by the Federation for quick reflexes...
"I need a servant who doesn't talk." Thus speaks Abelard, outspoken and passionate church scholar. So Spider, mute and small, is saved from mutilation and poverty to keep watch as Abelard and his beautiful and gifted pupil Eloise commence one of the...
When tragedy and murder strikes his family, seventeen-year-old Tommy finds himself working in the mines where he comes to understand the dangerous barrier that exists between the mine owners and the union workers....
An adventurous rescue set in the time of medieval knights, castles, bandits, and music. Before their father returns to France from the Crusades, daring Alice and musical Roger set off on their own journey: to find their long-lost uncle. But on t...
Having left the island to avoid another battle when the clones and Brigand arrive, Corgan’s peaceful existence in Florida comes to an end when Brigand locates him there and seeks a confrontation with Corgan and his friends that leaves them with no ...
Having fled aboard their spaceship to the Isles of Hiva after winning the virtual war, Corgan realizes that leaving Brigand roaming the universe was a bad decision and so, with Sharla and Cyborg, begins to plot an attack against his nemesis to finali...
This pair of riveting dystopian bind-ups tells of an Earth whose population has been decimated by disease and natural disasters. Survivors live in domed cities, sealed off to prevent the spread of further ruin. In Devastation, there is to be a bl...
In 1917, with America just having entered World War I, two young boys--Hank Kerner and Bazyli Radichevych, a Ukrainian immigrant called Billy Radish--cope with the difficulties of growing up, cultural differences, and choices about the future....