An Irish orphan-boy sets out as a guide to a Tibetan Lama and ends up enrolling in the Indian Secret Service which leads to danger in the Himalayas.

In the rugged landscape of early frontier Texas, fourteen-year-old Travis faces taking over his family's farm and making a painful, important decision.

Oliver Twist is a poor orphan boy cruelly treated in the public workhouse. Pennyless and hungry, he runs away to London, only to fall into the clutches of a gang of thieves and pickpockets led by the master criminal, Fagin. Befriended by a man robbed by the gang, Oliver ultimately learns his true identity and gains a home, a fortune, and a family. --Amazon.com

The essential facts of ten mysteries are presented, giving the reader the opportunity to solve the cases before examining the boy detective's solutions.

Idaville's secret weapon against lawbreakers, ten-year-old Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown, helps the police force solve ten new cases, the solutions to which are found in the back of the book.

"Thirteen-year-old Arthur Curry has enough troubles to sink a ship. His mom left him and his dad when Arthur was only three years old. He doesn't fit in with the other students at school. To them, he's just "fish boy," a weird, freaky kid. But Arthur has a secret. Something so secret, even he doesn't know what it is. Yet ... With the help of his only friend, Claudia, Arthur will begin to learn the truth about his mother, himself, and a legendary world...

When a mysterious old man gives James some magical, tiny green things, he certainly never imagines that they will grow into an enormous peach.

Brian Young's powerful debut novel tells of a seemingly ordinary Navajo boy who must save the life of a Water Monster--and comes to realize he's a hero at heart. When Nathan goes to visit his grandma, Nali, at her mobile summer home on the Navajo reservation, he knows he's in for a pretty uneventful summer, with no electricity or cell service. Still, he loves spending time with Nali and with his uncle Jet, though it's clear when Jet arrives that he...

A boy and a talking horse share an adventurous and dangerous journey to Narnia to warn of invading barbarians.