Jane, a young girl living in a harbor town of Mystic, Connecticut in 1887, enlists her friends in an investigation of a ghostly ship spotted out at sea.
Sixteen-year-old Bryna, living in a small village on the Russian-Polish border in 1889, wins a coveted trip to America in a town lottery, and despite her misgivings she sets out to find her future.
Liza and her brother Whitman, searching for a missing pet frog aboard their father's merchant schooner in 1889, become involved in a mystery when they find ghostly footsteps on deck that appear to have stepped directly out of the sea.
Reduced to begging and thievery in the streets of London, a thirteen-year-old orphan disguises herself as a boy and connives her way onto a British warship set for high sea adventure in search of pirates.
Herman Melville's classic novel "Billy Budd, Sailor," with introduction, chronology of the author's life, timeline of events, critical analysis, explanatory and textual notes, and discussion questions.
