Books in Adventures of Wishbone, 18 series

Wishbone imagines himself as Ivanhoe in England during the late twelfth century when Robin Hood and his band of men ruled the forest.

Joe runs into difficulty when he needs to prove the innocence of troublemaker Curtis, a situation that reminds Wishbone of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel, "Kidnapped"

Events in the lives of Wishbone and the Talbot family parallel the story of the hero Beowulf and his struggle against the sinister monster, Grendel

Joe tries to identify the mysterious metal object Wishbone found in the backyard, while Wishbone imagines he is Professor Lidenbrock traveling towards the center of the Earth

While helping Joe, Sam, and David look for an ancient Oakdale secret, Wishbone imagines that he is Allan Quartermaine, searching for legendary treasure in an unexplored part of Africa.

When he accompanies Joe and his friends to look for treasure in the condemmed Trumbull barn, Wishbone imagines himself as young Jim Hawkins who acquires a treasure map and soon finds himself involved with dangerous pirates

Joe and David publish a sports newsletter using new technology that will be better than the existing paper which reminds Wishbone of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

As he and Joe try to get to the eight-grade basketball game in time, Wishbone the dog imagines himself as Robinson Crusoe, the sole survivor of a shipwreck who lived on a deserted islandfor nearly thirty years.

Surveying the neighborhood on Halloween night, Wishbone is reminded of eight scary ghost stories inspired by such classic writers as Charles Dickens, Sir Walter Scott, Bram Stoker, and others

Locked out of the school while Joe and his friends are inside, Wishbone imagines himself as D'Artagnan, a young seventeenth-century Frenchman who achieves his dream of becoming one of the prestigious musketeers who guard the king and his court.

Wishbone imagines himself as Rip Van Winkle

Only Wishbone, a hero with a courageous canine heart and four mighty sea legs can conquer the great white whale in this quest inspired by Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Original.