When nine-year-old Logan discovers that aliens are abducting pet dogs, he and his friends form the Intergalactic Canine Rescue Unit, and Logan stows away on a spaceship in hopes of saving man's best friend.
Because Faith hates her new life in Mexico, she and her faithful mutt, Edison, flee by rocket and find adventures which cause her to have a change of heart.
Faith and her family return from Mexico, where they had been living, to their home in San Francisco and have more adventures in the spaceship Peahen while trying to keep secret the fact that Edison the dog knows how to write.
Eleven-year-old Nickel, a boy with a great affinity for both animals and photography, moves into an apartment building run by the strange and mysterious Mr. Beastly and discovers a secret about the other tenants.
Ike feels bad about not saying anything to neighborhood bully Dave when Dave insists on killing lightning bugs to separate their glowing parts from their bodies to make "lightning rings" for the other children's fingers.
In France during a time of witch-hunts, in a village with a corrupt priest, thirteen-year-old Laszlo longs to be able to turn into a wolf as his parents can, but also desires the friendship of a village girl.
In France during a time of witch-hunts, in a village with a corrupt priest, thirteen-year-old Laszlo longs to be able to turn into a wolf as his parents can, but also desires the friendship of a village girl.
Fifth-grader Ty Cutter, named after baseball great Ty Cobb, has lots of enthusiasm for the game but very little talent, which makes life difficult for him and his father who is coach of Ty's team.
Uses photographs to help recount major engagements, including Dien Bien Phu, the Tet Offensive, and Khe Sanh, and depict the importatn role of air power.
