Books with title The Secret of Stonehead Island

Welcome to Pig Island... a place where Plato, an adorable, little pig, has a big message for humankind! When a young boy learns of a secret awaiting him on a tropical island, inhabited by some curly-tailed creatures, he sets his course across the ocean blue. There he meets a friendly family of pigs that are ready to share their wisdom about why all must join together and care for our universal home, Earth. In The Secret of Pig Island, Plato the pig comes to life with a timely message that all readers, young and old, are sure to embrace. Enjoy reading, and adopting, Plato's message of conservation wrapped in wisdom and love.

When John and Clara return to their cabin from working in the fields one evening, they are startled to discover that all of their household chores have been done. The mysterious, magical Aunt Easter tells the couple the identity of these unknown benefactors and their connection to the two white stones that Clara keeps in the house. Armed solely with Aunt Easter's advice and their own affectionate, courageous hearts, John and Clara must confront the evil conjure man. Only then will they solve the secret of the stones and fill the void in their childless home. Robert San Souci has drawn again from the rich legacy of African-American folklore, as he did in his acclaimed The Hired Hand and The Talking Eggs. And the deep, jewel-like colors of James Ransome's paintings carry the reader into the majestic Ozark mountains and inside this marvelously dramatic and touching story of love and courage.

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.

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.

*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.

This book is a sequel to "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea". Aparty of British adventurers, who had been ballooning, but whose triphad ended by being cast away on a Pacific island, have various setbacksdue to both pirates and convicts who had escaped from jails in mainlandAustralasia. They realise that at times there appears to be some kindof entity that is looking after them.This entity proves to be none other than Captain Nemo whom the reader isexpected to have met before with his submarine "Nautilus" in "20,000Leagues". Captain Nemo has been living in a huge cave inside the veryvolcanic island, where he is surrounded with immense wealth. But he isnearing the end of his life. We are present at his end. But whathappens after that is of great interest.

Jules Verne (1828-1905) is one of the most recognizable names in Western literature, coming to be known as one of the Fathers of Science-Fiction. Although he studied to be a lawyer and held stock trading jobs, he quickly learned that he had a knack for weaving adventurous stories of travels and expeditions. It didn’t hurt that one of his teachers may have been inventor Brutus de Villeroi, who created the first submarine for the U.S. Navy. Verne wrote about air travel and space travel 50 years before either was possible.

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?