The Seventeenth Swap By: Eloise Jarvis McGraw Age Recommendation 8+ 3.9/5 Eric Greene has a crippled young friend named Jimmy who wants a pair of red cowboy boots that are on sale with all his heart, but his Mother can not afford them. Eric then starts on a series of trades and swaps for […]
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Follow My Leader By: James B. Garfield Age Recommendation 8+ 4/5 Jimmy Carter was living a good life, but one day while he and his friends were playing baseball the day after the Fourth of July Art found a leftover firecracker which was illegal except on the Fourth of July. Jimmy tried to stop
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea By: Jules Verne Age Recommendation 10+ 4.7/5 Different ships are sighting a mysterious sea monster and based on the details the monster might be a gigantic narwhal. The U.S. government sends forth an expedition to find and kill the monster. Professor Pierre Aronnax, a French marine biologist receives a
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Lord of the flies By: William Golding Age Recommendation 12+ 4.3/5 A plane from Britain full of evacuating school boys is shot down and crashes on a desert island. Piggy and Ralph, two of the school boys, find a conch shell and blow it to summon the other boys. Ralph is appointed leader and
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Rifles for Watie By: Harold Keith Age Recommendation 10+ 3.5/5 Jefferson David Bussey was living on a farm in Linn County, Kansas when Watie men came to raid his farm. His family put up a fight and the Watie men eventually took off when men from neighboring farms came to help, but they gave