The Horatio Alger MEGAPACK® presents 70 Classic Works by the great 19th century author. Here are:<P> ADVENTURES OF A TELEGRAPH BOY<BR> DIGGING FOR GOLD<BR> MARK THE MATCH BOY<BR> BOB BURTON<BR> ANDY GORDON<BR> THE BACKWOODS BOY<BR> A BOY'S FORTUNE<BR> A DEBT OF HONOR<BR> BERNARD BROOKS' ADVENTURES<BR> WAIT AND HOPE<BR> MARK MASON'S VICTORY<BR> ROBE ...
Jim Kjelgaard (1910-1959) was born in New York City. He was still in the pre-school age when his father decided to move the family to the Pennsylvania mountains. There young Jim grew up among some of the best hunting and fishing in the United States. He commented: «If I had pursued my scholastic duties as diligently as I did deer, trout, grouse, squirrel, etc., I might have had better report cards!» He worked at various jobs – trapper, teamster, ...
Who says nobody does anything about the weather? Danny Dunn does! Of course if there hadn't been a drought when Danny went to the weather bureau to return a radiosonde, just maybe nothing would have happened. But has there ever been a time when Danny could contain his curiosity? Danny is naturally attracted to all the weather-forecasting instruments and decides to do some volunteer weather-observing. And when Danny and his friends Joe Pears ...
Danny uses a computer that Professor Bulfinch has created for NASA to prepare his homework, despite Professor Bullfinch's warning that Danny is to leave the machine alone. With his friend Joe Pearson and his new neighbor, Irene Miller, Danny has some success with the machine before it is sabotaged. Can Danny figure out what is wrong with the computer and fix it? And will their teacher learn what's really going on with homework? ...
"I challenge you to a duel of desert islands!" Dr. Grimes cries, when Professor Bulfinch accuses him of not being practical. Grimes plans to go ashore on an uninhabited desert island, and the Professor on another. After a month they will see who has survived the best! <P>Danny and his best friend Joe soon get permission to join them, and the four take off in the scientists' plane. But when they crash-land in the ocean and are re ...
Through a mishap in Professor Bulfinch's laboratory, Danny accidentally creates an anti-gravity paint. The natural use, of course, is for a spaceship – the paint can replace rockets to get the ship into space. Unfortunately, the spaceship is launched prematurely after Danny and Joe follow Professor Bulfinch and Dr. Grimes on a tour of the ship. A mechanical failure dooms the four to a one-way trip out of the Solar System – unless they can r ...
The «Dare Boys» are Dick and Tom Dare, two patriot youths, brothers, «from about three miles over in New Jersey.» They get caught up in key episodes of the American Revolutionary War – and the years after – interacting with historically important figures along the way. This is a great series for readers interested in U.S. history.<P> Included are:<BR> The Dare Boys of 1776<BR> The Dare Boys in Virginia<BR> The Dare Bo ...
Jenny Kane loves weird science–but it's gone way, WAY out of control. Her mother's moved out, her dad's still moping around, and she's not sure how to cope any longer. And she keeps getting these weird phone calls from a scientist named Rod who's…where?…when?–another time zone? Another time altogether? Another reality? But that'd be crazy, wouldn't it? <P> She also has the strangest feeling that she&ap ...
Rodney Congruent (son of Watson Congruent of «The Return of Captain Conquer» fame) fears he will never have the sort of adventures his parents had. Then he receives an envelope full of transporting glitter, and ends up on an alien spaceship. The aliens, Grubber and Drum, say that they're searching for new exhibits for The Planetoid of Amazement, although Rodney is skeptical of their motives. Then he's kidnapped by Mara and Grits, two m ...
