At Coyote Point, a lonely cliff overlooking the river where his father was last seen, 12-year-old Ance discovers much about the great wilderness and those who live there--including some things he never knew about his family and about himself.
Thirty different stories describe the strange things that happen at Wayside School, an architectural accident that was built sideways, thirty stories high with one classroom on each floor.
Driven from their impoverished Irish village, Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America.
Includes directions for building indoor and outdoor forts from blankets, boxes, leaves, sand, snow, and logs, as well as instructions for making model forts and toy weapons.
Surveys the history of unidentified flying object sightings and the stories of those who claim to have been contacted or abducted by extraterrestials, and recreates events happening in New Mexico in 1947 suggesting that flying saucers were in the area.