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Explains how to start and organize a rock collection; provides detailed descriptions of hundreds of minerals with information on geographic distribution, physical properties, chemical composition, and crystalline structures; and includes 385 color photographs.

Ralph runs away looking for freedom but winds up a prisoner at a summer camp. Newbery Medal-winning author Beverly Cleary ramps up the humor and adventure in the second book in the Ralph Mouse series. With a motorcycle to rev and the open road to see, Ralph S. Mouse is itching to run away from his overprotective family! But once he escapes to a summer campground nearby, the horrors of the wild make him doubt his plan. Angry cats, scary watchdogs,...

Princess Victoria longs for her eighteenth birthday when at last she will be free to rule the nation as she pleases and to reacquaint herself with the gallant Prince Albert.

An American archeologist and his two children, Jay and Lila Co oper, seek God's protection and guidance as they journey to the Near East in search of a biblical treasure which is buried in a place local residents believe is cursed.

Even while Randall was speaking, it was Pietro I saw, the tenderness in his dark eyes looking at me, the caress in his soft voice. In Randall's voice there was not a shred of emotion; nor was there any in his expression. How should I respond? What should I say? I knew this was the hardest decision I would ever have to make. Either choice would demand a different price. Was I prepared to pay it? Was love enough in the one to bridge all the other differences...

"You see I must go, don't you, Kitty?" Kip asked. Everything in her cried out, No, I don't understand. What about her dreams, her desires, the life they had planned together? Then she remembered the epitaph on the head-stone in the old hillside cemetery, the one that had made such a lasting impression on her: "What I gave, I have; what I spent, I saved, What I kept, I lost." It had been true a hundred years ago, and it was just as true now. If she...

In colonial Massachusetts in 1690, Josiah, Hope, and their cousin Rebecca overcome their differences and restore their friendship to form a "merry band."

Spending the summer in Salem Town as the guest of a wealthy ship owner, a ten-year-old Puritan boy asks God for help in dealing with a blackmailing bully.

Ten-year-old Thomas Hutchinson struggles with his rebellious nature in the face of a stern father while also experiencing the rising tensions caused by the Revolutionary War.