One ill-fated evening at the Reform Club, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days -- and he is determined not to lose. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, the reserved Englishman immediately sets off for Dover, accompaned by his hot-blooded manservant Passepartout. Traveling by train, steamship, sailboat, sledge, and even elephant, they must overcome storms, kidnappings,...

"It's Midsummer Night...In the woods outside Athens, two fairies are up to mischief. Their spells lead to chaos, confusion and a weaver with a head of a donkey. This is a magical retelling of one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies."--back cover.

This is a retelling of the adventures of Ulysses, describing the stories of the wooden horse, the Cyclops, the sirens, and the whirlpool monster.

An illustrated retelling of Frances Hodgson Burnett's book that describes the experiences of ten-year-old Mary, who after coming to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and meeting her sickly cousin, she discovers the mysteries of a locked garden.

Contains three stories about out-of-control robots.

Billy's pet Mini Monsters really want to go to school with him. Billy really doesn't want them to come. He's got enough trouble with the school bully, Basil Brown. But perhaps having MONSTERS around will be more helpful than Billy imagines ...

This book tells of the struggle of a small band of Jews for their freedom and how their story is woven into the festival of Hanukkah.

This book traces the history of pirates, from the pirates that scoured the coasts of the Roman empire hunting for merchant ships to the golden age of piracy in the Caribbean in the seventeenth century to the triumph of the British Royal Navy against piracy in the eighteenth century.

This book describes Julius Caesar's rise from a successful lawyer and military commander to the most powerful man in Rome.