Books with title Capture the Flag

In the spring of 1797, Captain Richard Bolitho brought his ship, the 100-gun Euryalus home to Falmouth. But soon the flagship was pressed into battle, part of a hastily formed squadron chosen to force British reentry into the Mediterranean, a mission demanding both skill and enterprise. In addition, Bolitho had to cope with a new admiral, and a mysterious and powerful civilian whose advice to the fleet would have sinister implications for the future of Britain. Once again Alexander Kent has produced a robust, swashbuckling adventure of the high seas.

The Ferret Capture was written by Andrew Licht when he was 9-years old. He drew the illustrations when he was 10. The book describes his real-life adventure spotlighting endangered black-footed ferrets in the prairies of western South Dakota with his dad and brother, and biologists from government agencies and conservation organizations. He describes the gear and the methods that biologist use to survey, capture, mark, and then release wild ferrets. The second part of the book contains information of black-footed ferret conservation, ecology, and the prairie ecosystem. Andrew's writings and illustrations are complemented with photographs from Pronghorn Productions.

It happened on the morning of the 9th day of May. The little village of Machias in the far away colony of Maine was lively enough as far as fishing towns go, but on this particular time it was in a regular turmoil. Men had jumped up leaving their breakfast half eaten and ran out bareheaded to gather round a courier, who, sitting on a horse that had his head down and his flanks heaving as if he were almost exhausted, was telling them of a fight which had occurred just twenty days before. There was nothing to indicate that the men were excited except their pale faces and clenched hands, but the looks they turned upon one another had a volume of meaning in them. What had the messenger to communicate that had incited such a feeling among those who listened to him? He was describing the battle of Lexington which had been fought and won by the patriots on the 19th day of April. We did not have any telegraph in those days, and the only way the people could hold communication with one another was by messengers, mounted on fleet horses, who rode from village to village with the news.