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Seventh-grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend when they were in a bus accident together. All he has left of Eddie is the journal his friend wrote stories in. Tristan is dreading the month he's going to spend on his grandparents' farm. But on his first night there, a sticky creature shows up and steals Eddie's notebook. Tristan chases after it, and a tug-of-war ensues between them underneath a...

In "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi", a courageous mongoose becomes the loyal pet of a small boy, and protects him and his family from two evil cobras who live in their garden. Hiawatha's boyhood is gracefully brought to life against a background of authentic Native American music in this excerpt from Longfellow's classic poem. Based on the famous African American ballad "John Henry", this story tells of the legendary contest to the death, between a spirited man...

Describes the life of the legendary steel-driving man who was born and who died with a hammer in his hand.

After losing his best friend in a bus accident and feeling like he failed to save him, seventh-grader Tristan Strong is sent to his grandparents' farm to heal. His first night there, however, a strange creature steals his friends' journal--the only thing Tristan could save from the accident--and runs off with it. Tristan catches up and wrestles the creature, and in the process punches a tree and unleashes a power he didn't know he had. The punch creates...