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  The Voice In The Night - Terror...

  William Hope Hodgson

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  The Voice In The Night by William Hope Hodgson 
  It was a dark, starless night. We were becalmed in the Northern Pacific. Our exact position I do not know; for the sun had been hidden during the course of a weary, breathless week, by a thin haze which had seemed to float above us, about the height of our mastheads, at whiles descending and shrouding the surrounding sea. 
  With there being no wind, we had steadied the tiller, and I was the only man on deck. The crew, consisting of two men and a boy, were sleeping forward in their den, while Will-my friend, and the master of our little craft-was aft in his bunk on the port side of the little cabin. 
  Suddenly, from out of the surrounding darkness, there came a hail: “Schooner, ahoy!” 
  The cry was so unexpected that I gave no immediate answer, because of my surprise. 
  It came again-a voice curiously throaty and inhuman, calling from somewhere upon the dark sea away on our port broadside: 
  “Schooner, ahoy!” 
  “Hullo!” I sung out, having gathered my wits somewhat. “What are you? What do you want?”

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  How Benjamin Franklin Became a...

  Gretchen Woelfle

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  Benjamin Franklin was a proud citizen of America all his life. And a proud subject of the British Empire. Until he wasn’t. 
   
  Under British rule Franklin prospered as a printer, newspaper publisher, and writer. 
  • He served in the Pennsylvania Assembly that made laws for the colony. 
  • He led campaigns to build the first college, library, hospital, and fire department for Philadelphians. 
  • He even proposed a closer political union of Britain and its American colonies to create a stronger Empire. 
   
  But when the British Parliament began chipping away at the colonies’ rights to govern themselves, Americans rebelled. At first Franklin used all his wit and wisdom to patch up the quarrel. When that failed, his dream of a stronger Empire died. 
   
  But a new dream was born—an independent America. 
   
  Gretchen Woelfle uses Franklin’s witty and wise words to portray Benjamin Franklin’s long winding road to revolution.

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  Lost Sci-Fi Books 471 thru 475 -...

  Harry Harrison, Robert...

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  Lost Sci-Fi Books 471 thru 475 - Five Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60sThe Velvet Glove by Harry HarrisonThe Day The Monsters Broke LooseRobert SilverbergThe Life–Work Of Professor Muntz Murray LeinsterThe Men Return by Jack VanceThe Hills of Home by Alfred Coppel

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  The Planet Portal and a Pizza

  Wendy Mass, Nora Raleigh Baskin

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  Mystery and adventure collide in this humorous and heartfelt multiverse adventure from beloved, award-winning authors Wendy Mass and Nora Raleigh Baskin.   Twelve-year-old Piper’s life has always been unusual: her parents are clockmakers whose inventions are anything but ordinary, and she’s the only kid she knows with a robotic talking dog. But her life takes a turn for the truly bizarre when she discovers her parents are in jeopardy and the key to saving them is a book full of strange equations.   When Raisa and Lev travel through the portal to Piper’s world, Raisa can finally prove that her mother’s multiverse project worked. Now, she just needs the book containing her mother’s equations to get back to her world…if only she can find it! As Raisa and Piper adventure to the bounds of the multiverse, they’ll need to discover their place in the world if they ever want to find their way back home. 

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  Kinzie's Got Talent

  Donna Boock

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  What do you get if you add a beaker full of STEAM + a sprinkle of mischief + a heaping dose of humor? Kinzie's Kinventions of course! 
  It’s talent show time, and Kinzie could win a real pretend-gold trophy! There’s only one problem. Kinzie can’t find her talent. Sure, she’s good at a lot of things. But dodging the Ferocious Lee Monstrous monster in the basement, fixing her best friend’s tapped-out tap shoes, and reading Whiz Kidz science magazine don’t count as talent. But could they be part of a bigger, soon-to-be-discovered talent? 
  Recommended for ages 6-9, this young chapter book series will appeal to readers of Junie B. Jones.

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  The White Seal - The First...

  Rudyard Kipling

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  "The White Seal" is a short story by the Nobel Prize-winning British author Rudyard Kipling. It first appeared in print in the August 1893 issue of the London-based magazine National Review. It was published again in 1894 as part of the anthology The Jungle Book.
  Unusually for a story in The Jungle Book, none of the action in "The White Seal" takes place in India. The story proper begins on an island in the Bering Sea between Russia and Alaska. The title character and protagonist, Kotick, is the first white seal ever to have been born on the island. When Kotick discovers that some of the seals on the island are killed by hunters for their skins every year, he sets off on a quest to find an island where seals can live without fear because no humans have ever visited it. His quest takes him all over the Pacific Ocean and beyond.

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