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While helping out part time in a pet shop, the Alden children discover an employee who is smuggling and selling exotic animals.

It is an exciting couple of days for the Gaskitt family and their community--with missing pets, an unusual substitute teacher, and a special addition to their household.

Rapunzel, having grown up in a lovely castle with the woman she thought was her mother, is placed in a very tall hollow tree as punishment after her curiousity prompts her to climb the castle wall and look at the ruin of the world beyond her home, but she is able to escape and with the help of Jack, embarks on a plan to free the land from the grip of the witch.

A collection of bizarre true stories about crimes, criminals, prisoners, and police.

A high school football player believes the harassment he is experiencing on and off the field is due to his father's prison record.

A detective shares his recorded collection of strange and funny criminal cases with his friends, changing names and places to protect the innocent.

Pete, a lonely and timid eleven-year-old who has just made friends with an adventurous girl named Rootie, hides out on Cutlass Island with his alcoholic father, waiting for the gunman his father fears will kill him.

Contains three story paths which allow the reader to discover the people and events of the age of the Wild West in the year 1876 from the perspectives of an outlaw, a lawman, and a fortune-seeker in Deadwood, Dakota Territory.

While working at a summer stock theater, eleven-year-old Zack and his stepmother encounter the ghost of one of Connecticut's most notorious criminals.

Discusses the life of Jesse James, including his childhood, the James-Younger gang, the many robberies he committed, his murder, and his legacy in American history.

"Examines gunfighters in the Wild West, including the typical traits and tools of gunfighters, infamous outlaws, gangs, important lawmen, and how the gun often ruled the Wild West"--Provided by publisher.

Forensic science, the preparation of scientific evidence to be presented in court is an increasingly valuable aspect of the investigation of crime.

In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.

Examines crime and punishment during the European Renaissance period and includes illustrated photographs and drawings describing how sentences were carried out for beggars and outcasts, robbers and murderers, and those who committed treason.

A murderer on the run from the authorities crashes thirteen-year-old Joe's pizza party and takes him and his friends as hostages.