Books with author Hugh Dickinson

Heather can't seem to follow directions. No matter how many times someone tells her something she just doesn't pay attention. One day Heather's stubbornness is going to get her into a lot of trouble... That day is today—as Heather races from her home ignoring her parents’ warning about the storm, she finds herself trapped in her local park while a hurricane destroys everything around her. Or at least everyone thought it was a hurricane...

Excerpt from A Winter Picnic: The Story of a Four Months Outing in Nassau, Told in the Letters, Journals, and Talk of Four PicnicersOften ran away to the seashore for a few days. There were wild sea-breezes and warm land-breezes; some times it was cold, and sometimes hot. Always they wore thicker clothing on these excursions than at home. In an ordinary summer, their muslins and grenadines seldom emerged from their retirement, and though never positively ill, they often con fessed themselves, in our Significant northern phrase, under the weather, - and it was a grievous thing to be under.Finally, in desperation at this state of things, the four rose up from their hole in the floor one shivering January, and fled a full thousand miles away. It seemed a long distance to go for a picnic; but Chicago is nearly as far from New York, and who minds going to Chicago? They left their furnace and their greenhouse, and alas! Their shivering friends; they set forth in a sleigh for the Fortunate Isles and during a few winter days they had passed the perils and pleasures (pains they had none) of a short sea-voyage, and settled themselves comfortably in a first-class hotel on a beautiful island, and under the English flag.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.