Author: Jon D. Parish
Publisher: Xulon Press
Keywords: volume, lee, jon, misadventures
Number of Pages: 108
Published: 2003-03-01
List price: $11.99
ISBN-10: 1591604621
ISBN-13: 9781591604624

Author: Audrey Couloumbis
Publisher: Yearling
Keywords: march, maude, misadventures
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-03-13
List price: $7.50
ISBN-10: 0375832475
ISBN-13: 9780375832475

Eleven-year-old Sallie March is a whip-smart tomboy and voracious reader of Western adventure novels. When she and her sister Maude escape their self-serving guardians for the wilds of the frontier, they begin an adventure the likes of which Sallie has only read about. This time however, the "wanted woman" isn’t a dime-novel villian, it’s Sallie’s very own sister! What follows is not the lies the papers printed, but the honest-to-goodness truth of how two sisters went from being orphans to being outlaws�and lived to tell the tale!

Author: Frances Towne
Publisher: Regent Pre
Keywords: wife, scientist, misadventures
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 2007-06-25
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1587901285
ISBN-13: 9781587901287

The Twentieth Century has been a time of great discovery for both men and women. Charles Townes, the scientist of Adventures of a Scientist, received the Nobel Prize in 1964 for discovering the principles behind the Laser, the practical application sof which has transformed modern civilization. Frances Townes, his wife, has also been on a trail of discovery, searching for the core of individual relatedness that must lie behind and beyond technology if our civilization is to survive her work withhomeless and runaway youth in Berkeley, California, has been groundbreaking. Born in 1916, just as w

Author: Sarah Smiley
Publisher: NAL Trade
Keywords: wife, military, misadventures, overboard, going
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2006-06-27
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0451218515
ISBN-13: 9780451218513

In 1999, Sarah was a typical bride-to-be, flustered with wedding details. Then the groom called. "I don’t want you to panic, but I might not be able to come to our wedding..." So began Sarah Smiley’s life as a military wife. As a former Navy brat herself, Sarah knew better than anyone that weddings and funerals-even childbirth!-take a backseat to Uncle Sam. But just as the young syndicated columnist gets comfortable with the military wife’s routine, her husband is sent away for unexpected deployment. What follows is a true test of strength and wit. From getting locked out of

Author: Louise Rennison
Publisher: HarperTeen
Keywords: casey, tallulah, misadventures, tights, withering
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2011-06-28
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0061799319
ISBN-13: 9780061799310

Wow. This is it. This is me growing up. On my own, going to Performing Arts College. This is good-bye, Tallulah, you long, gangly thing, and hellooooo, Lullah, star of stage. Tallulah Casey is ready to find her inner artist. And some new mates. And maybe a boy or two or three. The ticket to achieving these lofty goals? Enrolling in a summer performing arts program, of course. She’s bound for the wilds of Yorkshire Dales�eerily similar to the windswept moors of Wuthering Heights. Tallulah expects new friends, less parental interference, and lots of drama. Acting? Tights? Moors? Check

Author: Cressida Cowell
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Reader
Keywords: horrendous, haddock, iii, hiccup, misadventures, dragon, heroic, train
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-05-01
List price: $10.99
ISBN-10: 0316737372
ISBN-13: 9780316737371

Chronicles the adventures and misadventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III as he tries to pass the important initiation test of his Viking clan, the Tribe of the Hairy Hooligans, by catching and training a dragon.

Author: Cressida Cowell
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Reader
Keywords: horrendous, haddock, iii, hiccup, misadventures, dragonese, heroic, speak
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-05-10
List price: $10.99
ISBN-10: 0316156000
ISBN-13: 9780316156004

The rollicking sequel to "How to Train Your Dragon" and "How to Be a Pirate" offers a fast-paced plot, slapstick humor, witty dialogue, and imaginative black-and-white illustrations to enhance an exciting tale featuring Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III.