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The Riddle of the Sands is a 1903 novel by Erskine Childers. The book, which enjoyed immense popularity in the years before World War I, is an early example of the espionage novel and was extremely influential in the genre of spy fiction. It has been made into feature-length films for both cinema and television. The novel "owes a lot to the wonderful adventure novels of writers like Rider Haggard, that were a staple of Victorian Britain". It was a...

A simplified, abridged version of the adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century, accompanied by a short biography of Mark Twain, information about the abridgement, critical thinking questions, and other resources.

"You are lost in a desert. The heat is intense. The sun is burning your skin. Your water bottle is nearly empty. Finding water, shelter, and food in this extreme place will be tough. Your only hope is to use your desert survival skills"--Back cover.

Describes living on the planet Mars and the features of Mars.

Describes some of the species of large fish that live in and around the world's oceans and rivers.