Eighth grader Jack is confused when he finds his relationship changing
with his best friend, an athletic girl named Chris who has suddenly
become attractive.
Having escaped from their orphanage on a raft, Erin, January, and
Mouse float down into another world of abandoned warehouses and factories,
meeting a strange old man and an even stranger girl with webbed fingers
and little memory of her past.
In 1704, in the English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts,
eleven-year-old Mercy and her family and neighbors are captured by Mohawk
Indians and their French allies, and forced to march through bitter cold
to French Canada, where some adapt to new lives and some still hope to be
ransomed.
A history of professional wrestling from its roots in legitimate sport
to its days as a carnival attraction followed by the growth of regional
rivalries and culminating as television-centered entertainment.
Discusses historic and modern devices and other means of replacing
damaged or missing parts in humans, including organ transplants, genetic
engineering, and computer-engineered limbs.
Parallel biographies of Sioux leader Sitting Bull and Indian agent
James McLaughlin show how the representatives of their two nations came
into conflict as their cultures clashed.
