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This action-packed adventure will keep readers on the edge of their seats from beginning to end. Two stories center around the Greybeard Island in the English Channel - one current day story (which is 1939 just before the English enter WWII) and the other is 1805 aboard the H.M.S. Merlin ready for battle with a pirate ship named Mystere. 12-year-old Nick travels back through time using a time machine invented by Leonardo DaVinci to help his ancestor Captain Nicholas McIver of the Royal Navy and Admiral Nelson's entire fleet who are threatened by the French and Captain Billy Blood. Blood has the twin time machine in his possession that he uses to kidnap children and dogs which he holds for ransom on his ship. Nick's dog Jip is one dog that is being held and one reason Nick returns to the 19th century. Meanwhile, his little sister Kate is in the care of Comander Hobbes, a spy for the English, when their boat is overtaken by a Nazi U-boat. There are many twists and turns in this complicated story best suited for readers in grades 6 and up, although it would be good read-aloud to younger readers as well. 
This book is about a traveling circus. It tells of a scary fire that happened in the 1970's at the ringling bros. circus. It is put into different views by different people, such as the fire cheif or an innocent person who came to see the circus, or the person accused of setting the fire. It is a very interesting book and I reccomend it to anyone who loves adventure books, or is interested in f=reading about fires and other disasters.
Liz Hall is 15 when her bicycle is hit by a hit-and-run driver. She wakes up on a ship crossing the River Nile unaware that she has died. A grandmother she has never met meets Liz when the boat arrives in Elsewhere, a world very similar to Earth. Here, the dead age backward from the day they died until they are babies again and sent back to Earth. Liz is very angry at the hit-and-run driver for ending her life before she has learned to drive, without the chance to go to prom and to graduate from high school. Now she won't have a chance at a life that includes boyfriends, husband or children. She spends a great deal of time at the observation decks where she can watch her friends and family on Earth, and devises a plan to let her family know who the driver was of the car that killed her. After her anger begins to subside, Liz slowly adjusts to her new life in Elsewhere accepting a position placing into new homes animals who have resently died and discovers that life can go on even when you're dead. This book will appeal to teens in grades 7 and up. 
The River is about Brian going out into the woods with a psychologist called Derek Holzer. Derek works for the government and is going with Brian to study how he survives in the wilderness. He will then take his notes and use them to train people in the military. The only problem is that Derek gets hit by lightning while trying to "radio" Brian's parents. Derek was in a coma. Brian then builds a raft, travels down Necktie River with Derek, sick as ever, and travels to a trading post. In the end, Derek gets out of his coma. Brian receives a canoe called 
This book is about Brain’s life back in the city. He can’t adjust. Brain is constantly thinking about the woods. When he gets in a fight with a bully, he “sends” him to the hospital because his forest instincts kicked in. After that, he goes to a counselor, a blind, retired police man. Ironically, Brain doesn’t get counseled, but he tells stories about his adventure in the wilderness. Eventually, Brain canoes down a river in Canada to live in the wild again. 
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