Captain Savage rushed to the rail, and was soon busily engaged in looking at the wonderful sea-creature Homer Woddle declared had sunk the ship in which he had been sailing. The crew gathered around the Captain with much agitation. Seamen are at all times superstitious. Never having heard of such a strange monster, they fancied its appearance boded no good at all. The monster, perfectly inert up to this time, suddenly threw out a marvelous light -- illuminating the depths of the ocean! Roy Rockwood's The Wizard of the Sea is one of the fabulous boy-adventure novels from the turn of the last century.

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Flynn McCallister had a talent for make-believeIn fact, Dr. Ann Perry was seeing a whole new side to her Los Angeles neighbor. The irresponsible bon vivant had become a model parent ever since he'd found a homeless little girl. Flynn was great at games, a whiz at bedtime stories and terrific at reassuring a lost and lonely child that her parents would soon come to claim her. Flynn easily won little Becky's trust. And in so doing, he won Ann's love.But was their love real? Or would Ann find, when their make-believe family came to an end, that Flynn's love had been make-believe, too?

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