After the doughnut eating champion of the country decides to retire at age thirteen, he receives a request from the White House to compete against the Russian champion for the world title.
An anthology of flight that includes seventeen true adventures from the written accounts of such aviation notables as Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Charles Lindbergh, Edward Rickenbacker, and John Glenn.
When a talented but selfish and overconfident pole-vaulter is injured, the team's sprinter attempts this new event and learns to accept it as a fearful and demanding experience.
An Alaskan caribou is born into a world filled with such dangers as forest fire, other animals, lack of food, and hunters; he survives and grows to maturity.
Follows the activities and behavior of a female weasel through several seasons as she raises a litter of kits and struggles for survival in the shadow of ever-present danger from numerous enemies, including man.
After her mother breaks her leg Jill derives and carries through plans for fixing up their newly purchased vacation home because she feels responsible for her mother's accident.
The history of the Hudson River and its shores is traced in this journey from the river's mouth at New York Harbor to its source in the Adirondack Mountains.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday & Co
Date Published: 1968
Description: Very Good in Very Good- jacket. VG/VG-, dust jacket states "A Doubleday Reinforced Library Edition", mild edgewear to the dust jacket, orange sticker on inside of front cover, interior clean, binding tight, oversized. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc. 1964
Description: HB. Very Good-/No Jacket. 4to (11-13 Inches tall). unpaginated, wht papercovered boards w/purple lettering & color wraparound illustrations, some sunning to boards, slight soiling, prev owner wrote on ffep, color illustrated eps. Collection of juvenile poetry & rhymes by various authors. read more
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Ex school library very good reading copy in protected dust jacket. read more
Description: EXLIB COPY, VG-/VG, Hardcover with Brodart DJ, First Printing Hard Cover 141pp...illustrated; green boards; : light to moderate edge/spine/cover wear; soiling. read more
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