When twelve-year-old Bronte moves to a small California beach town, her idea to form a book club in order to make friends turns out to be a good one, after a rocky start.

When 12-year-old Danny and six-year-old Judd lose their parents to pneumonia in 1878, they are sent to an orphanage in San Francisco. The headmaster wants to separate the brothers and send them to different families, but because they have only each other they escape. They make their way to the dangerous mining camp of Bodie, California in the High Sierra to be with their Uncle Hank. A tenderhearted croupier named Madame Mustache (true person!) takes them under her wing, along with other orphans roaming the raucous town. When the boys find their Uncle Hank and learn he's involved with a Chinese woman, they realize life with him won't be what they had expected. ** Maps, glossary, photos (in e-book). Short chapters and exciting adventure for reluctant readers. Great for classrooms studying California history. ** Highly recommended by fourt-grade teachers

With the United States ruling over the planet, a consortium of rivals has begun mining on the moon and Sergeant Ethan Stark is headed there to stop them. Original.

Pyromancer Douglas Brightglade, the Wizard Flarman, and the Bronze Owl travel to an unknown land to investigate rumors of an evil coven