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A mysterious book of short stories circles Mr L's 5th grade class, passed from student to student, hidden from Mr L's watchful gaze. What could possibly be more interesting than math? Suspecting something sinister, Mr L takes it upon himself to read these stories and find out...This collection of short stories follows a group of zany 5th grade boys and their teacher’s failed attempts to foil their plots. There’s spelling tests that go horribly wrong, pranks that go horribly right, holes to China, recess wars, car driving, class-wide elections, and more! It's a celebration of mischievous humor, friendship, imagination, and above all, the ridiculous fun of being a young boy.DISCLAIMER: These are stories for 5th grade boys, about 5th grade boys. If you have never been or known a 5th grade boy, this book isn’t for you. These stories won't teach lessons - There are no dead dogs or sick relatives. There is, however, a turtle.

"It reared its black, forbidding head like some huge monster rising from the deep." A typhoon rages off the coast of Japan -- and off the page, in Jack London's first story, published at age 17. In these vivid stories, London pits nature at its most extreme against men who must struggle violently to survive. Whether describing ore cables strung across a valley in Sacramento gold-mine territory or the straining boards of ships battered by gales, London's eye for realism keeps his dramatic tales vivid and fresh -- even now, nearly a century after his death.

A mysterious book of short stories circles Mr L's 5th grade class, passed from student to student, hidden from Mr L's watchful gaze. What could possibly be more interesting than math? Suspecting something sinister, Mr L takes it upon himself to read these stories and find out...This collection of short stories follows a group of zany 5th grade boys and their teacher’s failed attempts to foil their plots. There’s spelling tests that go horribly wrong, pranks that go horribly right, holes to China, recess wars, car driving, class-wide elections, and more! It's a celebration of mischievous humor, friendship, imagination, and above all, the ridiculous fun of being a young boy.DISCLAIMER: These are stories for 5th grade boys, about 5th grade boys. If you have never been or known a 5th grade boy, this book isn’t for you. These stories won't teach lessons - There are no dead dogs or sick relatives. There is, however, a turtle.

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Jack London (1876-1916), was an American author and a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction. He was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing. London was self-educated. He taught himself in the public library, mainly just by reading books. In 1898, he began struggling seriously to break into print, a struggle memorably described in his novel, Martin Eden (1909). Jack London was fortunate in the timing of his writing career. He started just as new printing technologies enabled lower-cost production of magazines. This resulted in a boom in popular magazines aimed at a wide public, and a strong market for short fiction. In 1900, he made $2,500 in writing, the equivalent of about $75,000 today. His career was well under way. Among his famous works are: Children of the Frost (1902), The Call of the Wild (1903), The Sea Wolf (1904), The Game (1905), White Fang (1906), The Road (1907), Before Adam (1907), Adventure (1911), and The Scarlet Plague (1912).