Falling under the spell of an enigmatic extreme-sports surfer, a thrill-seeking pair of western Australian adolescents are initiated into a world of high-stakes adventures and dangerous boundary testing.

Travel with Odd Thomas through the shifting prisms of his world, through his small desert town as ominous shadows gather. He struggles to avert a looming cataclysm with the aid of his soul mate, Stormy Llewellyn, and an unlikely community of allies that includes the King of Rock and Roll.

The cruel world of the early Victorian England. The novel describes the life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, a young man that has to support his family - his mother (a Dickens portrait own mother) and sister - after the death of his father.

It's Easter at Princeton. Seniors are scrambling to finish their theses. And two students, Tom Sullivan and Paul Harris, are a hair's breadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili--a renowned text attributed to an Italian nobleman, a work that has baffled scholars since its publication in 1499. For Tom, their research has been a link to his family's past--and an obstacle to the woman he loves. For Paul, it has become an obsession,...

An autistic black boy uses his memory for numbers to break into his employer's safe and steal its monetary content to provide the rent that his abusive father has demanded from him, who then uses the money to repay a loan shark. With the help of his Big Brother, Zig Zag learns that he must do the right thing and get the money back or face being taken away to a juvenile detention home.

In order to prove that he has what it takes to make it, a young man from a blue collar background enters the Naval Acadey in Annapolis and enters its boxing tournament, the Brigade Championships.

The adventures of an orphaned young man in Victorian England who is given a great deal of money by an unknown benefactor to enable him to live as a gentleman, pursuing a good education and fulfilling great expectations.

When David Copperfield's widowed mother remarries, David suffers from his stepfather's abuse. At age 8, David is sent away to a harsh school where the principal routinely beats the students. David's circumstances become even worse when he is removed from school and, at age 10, forced to labor from morning to night in a London warehouse. David then decides to take desperate action. He will run away to his great-aunt, who lives in Dover. Having never...

"Bob Schultz, a carpenter by trade, has written a timeless book for boys. Wisdom and common sense are gleaned from short chapters covering topics such as authority, inventiveness, and honesty as well as learning to overcome things like fear, laziness, and temptation. 'Boyhood and Beyond' motivates boys to build their lives on a foundation of strong moral principles. Most importantly, these chapters will encourage boys to become the men God wants them...