Books with title Secrets of Ghost Island

There is danger in the wind and scandal in the sand—and now Nancy’s about to discover where the bodies are buried! Behind the rustic charm of beautiful Block Island lurks an ugly secret...a secret worth killing for. The mystery begins when Nancy joins grad student Barb Sommers on her summer fieldwork—and makes a deadly discovery. Nancy may be able to help Barb, but there’s nothing she can do for fisherman Tom Haines, who has been murdered! Haines was not a nice guy. An operator and a hustler, he was always on the lookout for a big score. But he got in too deep and paid with his life, leaving behind an island full of suspects. Now it’s Nancy turn to stir up the waters...and she’s sure to stir up trouble. A killer’s on the loose, and Nancy’s swimming with the sharks!

The Secret of Ghost Island was a finalist for AuthorU's National "Draft To Dream" Book Competition Award.Also a finalist for Florida's Writers Association in Juvenile Fiction.This is the story of eleven-year old Hannah Haviland, whose parents have a station on the Underground Railroad in Ohio, helping slaves escape into Canada.One slave, Elijah, who has come through their station, makes Hannah promise that she will keep an eye out for his two daughters, also on the run. Hannah promises to watch for them but soon feels compelled to actively search for the girls. When wanted posters of the girls appear in town, and bounty hunters come to the Haviland house looking for runaways, Hannah and Jonathan, her Quaker friend, begin a race against time to find the girls and help them flee to Canada. But how do you find someone who is hiding? And how do convince them you are on their side; you will not hand them over to bounty hunters?

Max and Jess discover a family of orphans trying to avoid deportation. The girls decide to help them, when the town is hit by a rash of burglaries. The authorities are blaming their friends, and Jesse, Max and Cooper set out to prove their innocence. Clues, unfortunately, lead to the one place no one wants to go—Ghost Island. Stormy weather, unexpected thieves and a cougar have them wondering if they’ll ever get off the island alive.

Four children are evacuated from London during WWII to live with their Grand Parents in the countryside near Bletchley Park where their parents work. Near the house is a lake with an Island and when they explore it they find a cave with four tunnels leading from it. When they go down tunnel one they find they are looking into the future of London's Regent Street, a young girl from 2080 who got lost and finds Ed and manages to get back to 1940 with him. They find tunnel two goes to the Past and 3 and 4 have the Controls to the Time Traveler on which they can set the dates and places they want to travel to, the girl Zara manages to get back to 2080 but finds destruction and devastation all around and realizes her parents could be dead, so she returns with the four children to 1940 and live with them.

An intriguing mystery story. "All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived."-Cyrus Harding The third novel in the 'Mysterious Island' trilogy follows the adventures of some British ballooners who have crashed on a remote Pacific island and struggle to survive among pirates and escaped convicts.,This book has been professionally formatted for e-readers and contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it. For more great book club picks, check out : http://amzn.to/1A7cKKl Find all our our books for Kindle here: http://amzn.to/1PooxLl Sign up for the Xist Publishing Newsletter here.

Max and Jessie get involved in a new adventure involving a trio of recently-orphaned children, who set up camp on nearby Ghost Island trying to escape deportation back to Mexico. In the meantime, a series of burglaries in town has police concerned that a gang of professional thieves is involved. When the girls get involved to help the orphans, they stumble upon the thieves' camp and are trapped.

It formed the third andcompleting part of the Mysterious Island set of tales of adventure.We may count it, taken separately, as next to Robinson Crusoe andpossibly Treasure Island, the best read and the best appreciated bookin all that large group of island-tales and sea-stories to which itbelongs. It gained its vogue immediately in France, Great Britain,and overseas besides being translated, with more or less despatch,into other European tongues. M. Jules Verne must indeed havegained enough by it and its two connective tales to have acquired anisland of his own.

After a vicious storm aboard ship, fourteen-year-old Caleb is tossed into the Atlantic Ocean. Frightened and alone, he finds himself nudged awake. He’s been recovered by one of Sable Island’s legendary wild stallions and is given shelter by a mysterious stranger, Norse, who is secretly living on the island. As Caleb recovers and gets to know his strange rescuer, learning the art of scrimshaw, storytelling, and survival, he wonders how he’ll manage to remain on the island he’s come to love. When he befriends the ghostly girl who rides bareback over the dunes, he knows he must do whatever he can to save her, and himself.A heartwarming and captivating adventure set on the infamous isolated sandbar that has captivated so many, and featuring original illustrations, Secrets of Sable Island will leave young readers spellbound.

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. This book is a sequel to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea. A party of British adventurers, who had been ballooning, but whose trip had ended by being cast away on a Pacific island, have various setbacks due to both pirates and convicts who had escaped from jails in mainland Australasia. They realise that at times there appears to be some kind of entity that is looking after them.