Troy Howell

When Kat, her father, and brother visit an old gold mine that has been turned into an amusement park, she falls down a shaft and meets an ancient dragon, the last of his kind, and inadvertently triggers a twenty-first century gold rush.

Follows the adventures of Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer as they try to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable, and stimulating place.

Retells twelve tales from Greek mythology, including the stories of King Midas, Echo and Narcissus, the Golden Apples, and Cupid and Psyche.

This volume is an anthology of the fairy tales of Danish author Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875). His stories are acclaimed for having delighted children worldwide and have been translated into more than 150 languages. They have inspired motion pictures, plays, ballets, and animated films. It contains familiar tales, such as "The Emperor's New Clothes" and "The Princess and the Pea" and also Andersen's lesser-known stories, such as "The Sandman"...

A collection of rarely retold tales from the "Elder Edda" and the "Younger Edda, " two six-hundred-year-old Norse manuscripts.

Easy-to-read text introduces the way of life of the various groups of native Americans before the arrival of the white man.

The new duckling is scorned by everyone because he is different but after a lonely winter he discovers he has grown into a beautiful swan.

Twenty fairy tales from a variety of sources, including Grimm, Perrault, Andersen, and Wilde.

When spoiled rich girl, Mary Lennox, is orphaned, she is shipped from India to live in her uncle's enormous manor in faraway England. The lonely girl is forbidden to play in most of the imposing house ? struggling to adjust to her new surroundings, she goes out into the grounds every day. Before long, Mary finds a key to a secret garden that has been left untouched for ten years, and a whole new world of enchantment opens up to her. For the first...