Contains seven fiction stories by nineteenth-century American author Herman Melville, including the title work in which Billy Budd, a handsome and innocent sailor, becomes the target of a plot by the jealous master-at-arms to frame him for treason.
In 1873, seventeen-year-old Vesper Holly and her guardians travel to an obscure European grand duchy, where their archenemy Dr. Helvitius is pursuing a lost art treasure and engineering the country's annexation by a neighboring kingdom.
Presents four of American author Jack London's novels and fifteen of his short stories in facsimile of the original magazines in which they appeared, including such works as "White Fang, " "The Call of the Wild, " and "In a Far Country.".
After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "bird kids, " who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose.
Eleven-year-old Anakin Solo, ready to start his Jedi training, receives permission from his Uncle Luke Skywalker to visit a secret cave in Dagobah where he learns a frightening, but reassuring truth about himself.
After being kidnapped by his villainous uncle, sixteen-year-old David Balfour escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against British rule.
