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Third in the "Leatherstocking" saga. Contains the text of the novel with illustrations of the author and his environment and reproductions of drawings for early editions of the book together with an introduction and descriptive captions by Allen Klots, Jr.

It s 1814. Napoleon is exiled on Elba. Europe is in shambles. Britain is at war on four fronts. And Stranje House, a School for Unusual Girls, has become one of Regency England s dark little secrets. The daughters of the beau monde who don't fit high society s constrictive mold are banished to Stranje House to be reformed into marriageable young ladies. Or so their parents think. In truth, Headmistress Emma Stranje, the original unusual girl, has plans for the young ladies plans that entangle the girls in the dangerous world of spies, diplomacy, and war.

George Porter Dillman agreed to work as an undercover investigator on the Lusitania thinking he would only be working with petty thieves and drunken fist fights, but when the ship's blueprints are stolen and a passenger is killed, George's peaceful voyage becomes a life or death mission.

While Gideon struggles to save the family farm and Emily faces charges of spying, their friend Nat attempts to find his mother and sisters even as the Civil War rages in Virginia.

In a national contest, readers voted and decided that the next I SURVIVED topic will be the Great Chicago Fire, 1871!In the next book of the I SURVIVED series, one boy will struggle to stay alive as the great city of Chicago burns.

A fictionalized account of the discovery of King Tut's tomb in 1922 by British archaeologist Howard Carter dramatizing his relationship with his upper class British patron Lord Carnarvon and with the bureaucracy of modern Egypt, and featuring flashbacks to King Tut's ancient Egypt.

A peaceful Christmas weekend in the Berkshire countryside is disrupted by tragic events that no one, not even clever aristocrat and budding sleuth Vespasia Cumming-Gould, anticipated.

Neil enters the Separate Collection in the Wyrd Museum and is transported back to the days of World War II.

December 1941. The inhabitants of Niihau lead a simple life. Mostly Hawaiian natives, they work the ranch of Niihau's eccentric haole owner, who keeps his island totally isolated from the outside world, devoid of cars, phones, and electricity. But then a plane crash-lands there, and although the villagers rescue the pilot, they have no idea that he has just attacked Pearl Harbor. War has now come to Eden, slowly undoing its tranquillity, widening the cracks in the already troubled marriage of Irene and Yoshio Harada, the island's only Japanese-American couple. It will test everyone's loyalties and all they believe in . . . as Paradise, once within reach, slowly falls victim to its own isolated innocence. Based on a little-known true event, East Wind, Rain is a provocative and compelling novel of irrevocable consequences for people thrust unwittingly into a devastating war of nations and American identity.

Includes sections on: Plants and Aminals -- The Past -- Science and Technology -- How People Live -- Transportation -- Planet Earth -- Out in Space -- Arts and Sport. Dinosaurs, reptiles, mammals, steam engines, machines, books.