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"Here are only a few of the wonderful, strange, and mysterious elements in this visit to the Kingdoms and Empires: a very proper girl named Lillian Velvet, living a very lonely life with a nasty Grandmother. A jar of coins, each with the power to take Lillian on a journey to a different time and place...and also to grant a single wish. A small boy in a barn about to be crushed to death by a load of hay. A family, each member in mortal danger, who are strangers to Lillian. And a web of dangerous magic closing tight around all. Who is this Lillian Velvet? And what is her secret?"--OCLC.

Grouchy Mr. Wilson lives next door to the most mischievous boy in town, Dennis Mitchell. Dennis just can't stay out of trouble, though he does try to help. When a thief steals Mr. Wilson's coin collection, Dennis comes to the rescue, inflicting Dennis the Menace-type tortures upon the thief.

The story of the H.L. Hunley, the only submarine used during the American Civil War.