Harold Kline is an albino—an outcast. Folks stare and taunt, calling him Ghost Boy. IIt's been that way for all of his 14 years. So when the circus comes to town, Harold runs off to join it. Full of colorful performers, the circus s...
The Smugglers (The High Seas Trilogy)...
Iain LawrenceSteer clear of that ship,' warns the mysterious gentleman who shares a coach with John and his father. 'Death she'll bring you,' says the man. 'IIt's the way of a ship that was christened with blood.'This is an ominous introduction to...
The Buccaneers (High Seas Trilogy)
Iain LawrenceThere's pirates in the West Indies. Cannibals. They cook you alive,' says Mr. Spencer to his son. These words will come to haunt 17-year-old John as he embarks on his first voyage to foreign lands. Carrying cargo destined for Jamaica,...
The Wreckers (The High Seas Trilogy)
Iain LawrenceThere was once a village bred by evil. On the barren coast of Cornwall, England, lived a community who prayed for shipwrecks, a community who lured storm-tossed ships to crash upon the sharp rocks of their shore. They fed and clothed ...
A girl's imagination transports polio-afflicted kids into a fantastic world.The spring of 1955 tests Laurie Valentine's gifts as a storyteller. After her friend Dickie contracts polio and finds himself confined to an iron lung, Laurie...
A modern-day adventure and classic in the making, in the vein of The Call of the Wild,Hatchet, and The Cay, by award-winning author Iain Lawrence. Less than forty-eight hours after twelve-year-old Chris sets off on a sailing trip do...