"Each summer, millions of children complain, 'There's nothing to do.' Originally published in 1888, [this book] resoundingly challenges this age-old dilemma by providing numerous ideas for fun and instructional projects for young boys. Everything from camping and kite building to raising dogs and building boats is detailed for the would-be adventurer and do-it-yourselfer." -- Back cover.

Marian Engel, who died in 1985 after a tragic struggle with cancer, was among Canada's most celebrated and beloved novelists. Her last, best known, and most controversial book was Bear (winner of the Governor-General's Award) in which a mousy, timid librarian is summoned to a remote Canadian island to inventory the estate of Colonel Cary, who, she learns soon enough, had any number of secrets. But the most surprising and enduring secret is a pet bear....

A stirring memoir of a young, single woman's laborious struggle to save her family's New England apple farm from going under during the Great Depression. The Orchard is an exquisitely beautiful and poignant memoir of a young woman's single-handed struggle to save her New England farm in the depths of the Great Depression. Discovered by the author's daughter after the author's death, it tells the story of Adele "Kitty" Robertson, young and energetic,...

The inspiration for the PBS Masterpiece series, The Durrells in Corfu: A naturalist's childhood adventures with animals-and humans-on a Greek island. For a passionate animal lover like young Gerald Durrell, the island in the Ionian Sea was a natural paradise, teeming with strange birds and beasts. As he writes ... "To me, this blue kingdom was a treasure house of strange beasts which I longed to collect and observe, and at first it was frustrating...