The Cay is a book about a boy named Phillip Enright living in the time of a world war II (1942). When German U-boats surround the island of Curacao, his mother who is frightened wants to go back to the Netherlands and take her son with her. Her husband who has to work was not able to leave, Phill...
Timothy Of The Cay Chapters 1-16Timothy is little, he finally got a job on a boat as the cleaner because the old one fell off a ladder. Timothy buys new shoes and races down to the dock with Tante Hannah but the ship is gone! A white boy had taken his job and the ship had left earlier than Timoth...
1)I just got done reading "The Weirdo"."The Weirdo" is a really well done book. The author manage to keep a suspens and mystery going through out the whole book. To start with he made the sitting in a lovely neighbor hood , but jet the neighbor hood had a swamp closedby. A girl named "Samantha" S...
Shortly after the first atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, World War II came to and, and the terrible reality of the atomic age began . . .Sixteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu has lived on the Bikini Atoll in the western Pacific all his life. Now the United States government wants to use his home as a ...
Now recovered from the shipwreck that killed her parents, Teetoncey reveals a secret: Two chests full of silver went down with her ship. Can Tee, Ben, and his friends dredge up the treasure without arousing suspicions?
William H. "Billy the Kid" Bonney Jr. isn't afraid to take risks. But during a train heist near his hometown, the odds catch up with him when a passenger recognizes the nineteen-year-old outlaw. Fed up with Billy's bad ways, The Law sends its best man to bring him in: Sheriff Willis Monroe, Billy...
Twelve-year-old Jose Maldonado used to dream of becoming a fine artist. But this son of a poor Mexican farmer now focuses on survival, not art. After Jose's mother died, his father left to work in the United States, leaving Jose on his own in Mexico. When it's time for father and son to reunite, ...
Ben O'Neal finds a girl shipwrecked on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. He names her Teetoncey, which means small, and brings her home.
Simple, I explained. It was a Banks word that meant teeny-tiny, and that seemed to satisfy him. One look at her and he could see that the name fitted the orphan like a toenail. Then, while we ate, Tee told her story of the past months, losing her parents in the shipwreck, etc., gaining a lot of s...
The FBI man said, "We have the fishermen in three suites at a San Francisco hotel with agents guarding the doors. The country could panic if news of this occurrence ever got out." The army major said, "Whatever that was Tuesday night could be a scout for Martian invaders." Jon wanted to say, "The...
Tuck started off as he did on any other morning, loping down the driveway, but less than ten seconds had passed when Mother heard the sickening screech of car brakes and a muffled yelp. Instantly she guessed what had happened and called out to my father, who was upstairs, shaving. Then she ran ou...
They were in a foul mood. The copper-mine town was as mealy as McLean, squatting on pink grime in a handful of tin-roofed frame buildings. A rail spur and Bates's freighters out of Polkton fed and clothed it. Aside from cactus patches, there wasn't a piece of green within five miles. They'd gone ...
Maybe it was because they had a stranger in the house, especially the female variety. Maybe it was because the excitement of the wreck was over. He didn't know. After he'd asked her how she felt in the early morning, he didn't have anything else to inquire about because there was no answer. She'd...
She'd spotted the bright blue cloth over at the edge of Powhatan Swamp just as she turned into her yard. Odd, because it hadn't been there when she went to school in the morning. Putting her books down on the front porch, she crossed Chapanoke Road, jumped the ditch, and came upon the cloth quick...