Beowulf first rescues the royal house of Denmark from two marauding monsters; then , after having ruled his people peacefully for fifty years, he is called upon to combat a dragon that is terrorizing the countryside.
Poems describe how thirteen-year-old Allie, living with her grandparents in a small Minnesota town in the 1960s, struggles to cope with her father's recent death, being abandoned by her mother, and trying to fit in at school.
A retelling of the heroic rescue of 163 people shipwrecked off the south coast of Newfoundland in 1828 by a young girl named Ann Harvey and her father and brother.