Fourteen-year-old Molly and her cousins Daisy and Gracie were mixed-race Aborigines. In 1931 they were taken away from their families and sent to a camp to be trained as good 'white' Australians. They were told to forget their mothers, their language
The Bobbsey Twins 2 - The Bobbsey Twins Adventure in the Country
All at once Bert's ankle turned and he went down. The others did not see him fall. They scrambled over the fence, then looked back when they noticed Bert was not with them. "Bert! Nan screamed. "Hurry!" As Bert picked himself up, he saw the bull charging straight toward him. The boy knew he never could reach the fence in time. The Bobbsey Twins - Bert and Nan, Freddie and Flossie - have won millions of fans since their first adventure in 1904. While remaining true to the spirit of the original editions, these latest revisions of the classic Grosset & Dunlap mysteries have fast-moving plots and exciting illustrations especially for today’s young readers.
Have you ever been to Yellowstone National Park? If so, you have stood on a catastrophein the making. The central region of the park is inside a collapsed volcanic crater that pulses with the hidden energy of magma deep below that will eventually explode in an eruption surpassing any in recorded history. Or have you ever driven in the rolling hills of the Piedmont region that extends from New Jersey to Alabama? Then you have crossed the core of an ancient mountain range that once rivaled the Himalayas.