FRED FENTON ON THE TRACK - A Y.A. Sports Adventure
FRED FENTON ON THE TRACK - A Y.A. Sports Adventure

Author: Allan Chapman

Publisher: Abela Publishing Ltd

Published: 2018-09-12

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 8828347848

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Rival school Franklin has taken the track and field championship for the past four years. It appears as if they will again unless school favorite Fred Fenton of Riverport School can hatch a plan to out distance Franklin's star performer. But will the strange happenings and clues lead Fred astray on other adventures. Is the mill really haunted, and what of the so-called “Evil”? Can something good come of that and what does the covered wagon have to do with it all? Table of Contents I. The Cross Country Runners II. A Strange Sound from a Well III. Out of the Depths IV. Fred Gets a Shock V. How Good Sprang from Evil VI. The News Corney Brought VII. Where is Colon? VIII. A Clue in the Ditch IX. The Covered Wagon X. The Ambush XI. The Haunted Mill XII. A Broken Door XIII. How Gabe Made Good XIV. Practice for the Race XV. The Accident XVI. A Gloomy Prospect XVII. An Unexpected Ally XVIII. Forced to Lend a Hand XIX. Glorious News XX. A Welcome Guest XXI. The Athletic Meet XXII. Fred on the Track XXIII. A Close Count XXIV. The Lone Runner XXV. The Alaska Claim ================ KEYWORDS/TAGS: Young Adult, Action, Adventure, athletics, cross-country, track, middle-distance, mile. 1600m, 1500m, 800m 880 yards, Fred Fenton, Runners, Strange Sound, Water Well, Out, Depths, Shock, Good, spring, Sprang, Evil, News, Corney, Colon, Clue, Ditch, Covered, Wagon, Ambush, Haunted, Mill, Broken, Door, Make Good, Practice, training, Race, Accident, Gloomy Prospects, Unexpected Ally, Force, Lend a Hand, Glorious, Welcome Guest, Athletic Meeting, on the Track, Close Count, Lone Runner, Alaska, Claim, run, tired, breath, puff, legs, spikes, running shoes

THE ISLAND of APPLEDORE - A young person's nautical adventure
THE ISLAND of APPLEDORE - A young person's nautical adventure

Author: Adair Aldon

Publisher: Abela Publishing Ltd

Published: 2018-10-10

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 8829516996

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Anyone who knows the coast of New England will know also the Island of Appledore and just where it lies. People who know the Isle of Appledore will also tell you that it is not exactly the place described in this book, that it is small and bare with a handful of buildings and rocky with no woods, no meadows, no church, or mill, nor a mill-creek road. Perhaps all that the story tells of it that is true is that the rocks of Appledore give forth their strange deep song, “the calling of Appledore,” as warning of a storm, that there the poppies bloom as nowhere else in the world, that there the surf comes rolling in, day in and day out, the whole year through, and that there one’s memory turns back with longing, no matter how many years of absence have gone by. There, also, you can sit for hours to watch the huge, green breakers come foaming and tumbling in endless procession up the stony beach; you can watch the nimble sandpipers and the tireless, wheeling gulls; and if you choose you can spin for yourself just such a story, such as this one of Billy Wentworth and Captain Saulsby and Sally Shute, a tale of mysteries and perils and midnight adventures on the shores of Appledore. YESTERDAY’S BOOKS for TODAY’S CHARITIES 10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities. ============= KEYWORDS-TAGS: Island of Appledore, Peering Eyes, Mill-Creek Road, Cruise Of The Josephine, Captain Saulsby, Watch, War Game, Ebbing, Tide, Mist, Moonlight, Stranger, The Mill, Calling Of The Island, Three Quarters Of A Year, Watchfires, Last Voyage, Johann Happs, American, Appledore Island, Arcturus, Atlantic, Aunt, authorities, battleship, beach, behind, Billy, binoculars, bluejackets, boat, Boston, BOYS OWN, Bradford, bridge, Captain, catboat, centreboard, Chicago, church, clock-maker, clouds, Congress, Destroyer, dreadnaught, end, engines, father, Fatherland, fellow, fog, found, garden, German, glasses, great, grey, hand, harbour, Harvey, home, house, Jacky, Jarreth, Joe, josephine, Junction, landing, light, little, man, manœuvres, Mattie, mill, Navy, Ned, night, ocean, officers, old-maid, Otto, passage, peace, pipe, Piscataqua, returned, Rockford, rose, sail, sailor, Sally, salt, Sanderson, sat, Saulsby, schooner, sea, ship, Shute, skipper, South, strawberries, submarines, suddenly, telescope, thought, tide, time, torpedo-boat, train, Trying, United States, War, warship, water, weather-beaten, Wentworth, West, western, white, wind, window, yacht

KNIGHTS OF THE FAERY QUEEN - Their Quests and Adventures
KNIGHTS OF THE FAERY QUEEN - Their Quests and Adventures

Author: Edmund Spenser

Publisher: Abela Publishing Ltd

Published: 2019-05-05

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 883258509X

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This volume contains 39 stories of quests and adventures which the Knights of the Faery Queen undertake to prove their abilities and worthiness. Full of action and adventure, the quests the knights undertake are accompanied by 34 full-page colour illustrations. Herein you will find the heroes and heroines like Britomart, Sir Artegall, the Lady Una and her lion, Florimell, Pastorella, Tristram, Sir Calepine and the Lady Serena plus many more. Each on a quest to answer a burning question or a dilemma they face which they need to overcome. Some of the stories in this volume are: The Red-Cross Knight – a women with the heart and armour of a man. And she fights like a man as well. The Fortunes of Una – how she faced and tamed her fear. What befell at the House of Pride - and what the Red Cross Knight did to help it fall. The Giant Orgoglio – and how the Red Cross Knight overcame a person thrice his size. The Deeds of (the young) Prince Arthur. Sir Calidore and (the beautiful) Pastorella, and many more. The book is a reworking of Edmund Spenser’s epic poem “Stories from the Faery Queen” into a Y.A. novel. Just like Spenser’s poem the work is an allegory of good versus evil and each of the quests or adventures portray a “fight” young people will have to face at some point in their life. Hidden within the quests, the action and adventure are the life lessons to better equip young people before they venture into the wide world of life. What actually happens on these quests and adventures you ask? Well you’ll just have to download this book and find out for yourself!

PRINCESS WHITE FLAME - The Adventures of Prince Radiance and Princess Whileflame in the Fire Kingdom
PRINCESS WHITE FLAME - The Adventures of Prince Radiance and Princess Whileflame in the Fire Kingdom

Author: Gertrude Crownfield

Publisher: Abela Publishing Ltd

Published: 2018-10-20

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 882952462X

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This is a children’s story about a curse placed on Princess White Flame of the Fire Fairies and how it was lifted. In this story you will hear tell of Prince Radiance, and Princess White Flame, who lived in the Fire Country and of many strange and wonderful adventures on which they journeyed on to reach, at last, a never-ending happiness. OF all the fairy countries in the world none is more wonderful or beautiful than the country where the Fire Fairies live. Into that land no fairies of the earth, or air, or water dare venture. They would be seared, or changed to ash or vapor. There are many doors which open into the Fire Kingdom. They number in the thousands, and hundreds of thousands. Wherever you see the firelight flicker, wherever you see flames leaping and dancing, wherever you hear the snap of the burning logs, there you may be sure is an open door. Then if you choose to creep close to it, and peer in, you may perhaps see wonderful things; fairy forms that flit and vanish, and reappear, and vanish again among the leaping flames. Perhaps, also, you may see the shining domes and glittering turrets of the fairy palaces. But when the fire burns down, and the hearth grows dark the door is closed—there is no more to be seen of that wonderland. In the very heart of the Fire Country stands the palace of King Red Flame, the gleaming flame-coloured palace, the Palace of Burning Coals. Around it lies a wonderful garden, where paths wind away among great fields of fire lilies, and flame roses lift their heads, and the tall shining trees rustle in the wind with a sound like the whispering of the fire on the hearth. Here in this glowing country the good and happy fairies work and play, and serve their king as all good fairies should. But not all fairies in this land are good and happy. Beyond the glow of the roses and the lilies, beyond all sight of the glimmering trees, there lies another part of the country where the evil fairies live. Here are great Plains of Ash, and huge Caverns of Soot, and stretches of gloom in which the Shadow Witch comes and goes. Here lurk the Imps of Darkness, Dragons crouch, and Wizards dwell. Perhaps sometimes when you have looked into the Fireplace you have seen those dismal plains and darksome valleys. They lie away from the heart of the Fire, at the side of the Hearth, and between the flames and the heaps of ashes. Yesterday’s Books for Today’s Charities. 10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charity. ============= KEYWORDS/TAGS: children's stories, folklore, fairy tales, folk tales, myths, legends, storyteller, bedtime story, moral stories, happiness, fable, Princess Whiteflame, , Ash, black, blonde, body, break, breast, brother, Burning, Cave, Chimney, Cloak, Coals, cradle, Curling, curls, dark, Dragon, Earth, entrance, errand, evil, Fairies, Fairy, Fire, firm, Flame, Flames, Flying, folds, garden, Giant, Glow, Goblin, gold, golden, Green, Grey, head, King, Land, love, magic, Majesty, messenger, palace, pass, presence, Prince, Princess, pure, Queen, Radiance, Red, restore, rose, Shadow, shining, Smoke, Soot, spell, Sword, Veil, wand, whisper, white, Whiteflame, wicked, Wind, Wisdom, Wise, Witch, Wizard

THE VILLAGE of Hide and SEEK - a Magical Tale of Adventure for Children
THE VILLAGE of Hide and SEEK - a Magical Tale of Adventure for Children

Author: Bingham Thorburn Wilson

Publisher: Abela Publishing Ltd

Published: 2020-03-13

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 8834175360

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On a bright sunny day in the middle of the month of August, a merry group of brightly dressed children were romping upon the green lawn of a country place. The old-fashioned stone house, with its wide porch and heavily carved wooden columns green-coated with climbing ivy, rose amid the stately trees of the lawn, until it seemed lost in a bower of shadowy foliage. The low, thatch-roofed out-buildings and long lines of a far-reaching fence, stood glistening in the sunlight, quite in harmony with the polished marble window sills of the great stone mansion. Standing in the very centre of the scene, arose the tall, rustic arm of an old-fashioned well-sweep, that raised or lowered a moss-covered, old oak bucket, filled to overflowing and dripping wet with cool, clear water, frequently visited by this frolicking group of merry children both during and after their play. As the children rested for a moment beneath the sheltering arms of an old oak tree, they were much surprised to behold the form of a wandering vagabond ambling along the dusty road. His hat was well drawn down over his eyes to avoid the glaring rays of the mid-day sun. Over his shoulder and made fast to the end of a crooked stick, that might have answered as well for a defence as for a staff, hung his sum total of earthly possessions, tied carefully into a small bundle and as carefully hid from view within the folds of a red bandanna handkerchief... And so begins the magical adventure to the Village of Hide and Seek. But what does the vagabond have to do with this bunch of happily cavorting children? And, just who is Aunt Twaddles? Well you’ll have to download and read the book to find out. ============== KEYWORDS/TAGS: Village of Hide and Seek, fairy tales, fairytales, folklore, myths, legends, children’s stories, children’s books, children’s fantasy, fables, bedtime stories, wonderland, parents with children, parents to be, grandparents, mothers with children, mothers to be, nursery school, king, kindergarten, kindergarden, Arthur, Aunt Twaddles, beautiful, Claus, dolls, Dreams, face, far, golden, great, Island, journey, magical, Maud, merry, happy, , mountain, old, path, palace, prince, princess, pennyroyal, Queen, River, Santa Claus,, stream, sweet, tall, throne, Vagabond, valley, village, water, wild, well, wonderland

MARION MARLOWE’S NOBLE WORK - The Tragedy at the Hospital
MARION MARLOWE’S NOBLE WORK - The Tragedy at the Hospital

Author: Grace Shirley

Publisher: Abela Publishing Ltd

Published: 2018-10-10

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 8829521116

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It is 1900 and Marion Marlowe is now a nurse at the Charity Hospital. She had passed through many trials since she came to the city, acting the part of heroine on several occasions, yet each time withdrawing herself and her noble deeds as rapidly as possible into the background so as not to attract too much attention. Her sister, Dollie, has also moved into the city where she has found work as a secretary with a company of lawyers. An old friend Bert decides to visit Dollie and calls upon her at the office, where social calls are frowned upon. She finds Bert has been rescued from poverty and has been adopted by a wealthy gentleman, who offers him the world. He is in town to find Marion and intends proposing to her – now that he is being educated and will soon be wealthier than he could imagine. However, Bert is disappointed to find Marion is already spoken for. Dollie has not quite realised that her employer, Mr Atherton, is sweet on her and could be blindly walking into what could become a messy social situation. Marion finds Dollie at lunch with her employer, whose intentions she challenges. Only then does Dollie realise what is going on. Dressed down and found out, Mr Atherton retreats. An old gentleman overhears the exchange and congratulates them on their win. But who is George Colebrook? What happened between him and Marion and what has he played in their past and what role will he play in their futures? 10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charity. ============= KEYWORDS-TAGS: Marion Marlowe, Noble, Deeds, Works, Allyn, Archie, Ass, Atherton, Belle, Bert, Beauty, Body, Breasts, Brookes, cat, carriage, doctor, Dollie, employer, friend, girl, Greenaway, heart, Horseless Carriage, Charity Hospital, hospital, Island, Jackson, laughing, lawyer, lawyer, love, Manhattan, Marion, Marion’s, Marlowe, money, Motor Car, nurse, poor, prison, pussy, Ralph, Ray, Reginald, sister, sweetheart, wife, woman, young, Grace Shirley

THE BOY GENERAL - The Story of Marquis de Lafayette
THE BOY GENERAL - The Story of Marquis de Lafayette

Author: Edward Cary

Publisher: Abela Publishing Ltd

Published: 2018-11-20

Total Pages: 41

ISBN-13: 8829543624

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For any readers who have visited Union Square in New York, maybe you have seen a bronze statue standing among the trees of the park. It represents a tall young man, in the close-fitting uniform of an American General of the Revolution. He is erect and with his right hand he clasps a sword against his breast. His left hand is stretched out toward the statue of Washington. His name was Marie Jean Paul Roch Yves Gilbert Motier, better known as Marquis de Lafayette. The story of his whole life is one of the most interesting that has ever been written. This short volume will give only the story of his services to the United States of America, and of his life during the few years in which those services were rendered. The statue was set up in honor of these great services. If you ever embark upon reading the history of the USA, his name will forever be linked with that of General Washington. They were both brave, faithful, just, and generous, and both honored the name of American citizen—a title which Lafayette proudly claimed so long as he lived. =========== KEYWORDS/TAGS: 73, 77, Boy General, action, adventure, admiration, America, André, army, Arnold, attack, Austria, battalion, battle, Boston, brave, British, campaign, Canada, cannon, capture, Carlisle, cause, character, Clinton, command, commander-in-chief, Commissioners, Congress, Cornwallis, Count, countrymen, courage, Deane, Declaration, d'Estaing, Emperor, enemy, England, English, expedition, fight, fleet, France, freedom, French, gallant, garrison, General, government, gratitude, hero, honor, honour, horseback, independence, injustice, Island, Jersey, King, Lafayette, Lee, liberty, Lord, Louis, love, Major-General, march, Marquis de Lafayette, Monmouth, Napoleon, Newport, northward, officers, oppressed, overthrow, Paris, Paul, Philadelphia, Philippe, prison, prisoner, quarters, reconnaissance, reconnoissance, revolution, Revolutionary, River, Rochambeau, services, seventy-seven, seventy-three, soldier, statesman, statue, Sullivan, surrounded, three-cornered, Union, United States, Valley Forge, veteran, victory, Virginia, war, Washington, wound, York, Yorktown, young adult, YA

TOP o' the WORLD - A Once Upon a Time Children's Fantasy Tale
TOP o' the WORLD - A Once Upon a Time Children's Fantasy Tale

Author: Mark E. Swan

Publisher: Abela Publishing Ltd

Published: 2019-05-05

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 8832576198

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TOP o’ the WORLD is a tale of ONCE UPON A TIME….. This is a child’s fantasy / fairy tale of Maida who visited the Wishing Pole at the North Pole, despite some very wise men with bald heads and long white beards who say there isn’t a Wishing Post at all! This is one of those gems of the children’s literary world that for some unfathomable reason never became a best seller. Not only does it have a cracking story-line it also has six exquisitely crafted full page colour plates but also 20 BnW vignettes to help young readers visualise the story as it progresses. In this book you will read about how Maida, who loves ice-cream, met the “Man with the Growly Voice”, who was an arctic explorer who told her a whole lot of interesting things about his journeys and voyages AND about the wishing post. The last thing she remembered, he was telling her about the time he met Father Christmas at the North Pole – and then she woke up in bed with a desire to find the Wishing Post and Father Christmas. Then he room was flooded with a bright eerie light. So, she went to the window and saw the Man with the Growly Voice who came to her and said, “I’ve come to take you to the Wishing Post.” What happened next you may ask? Well you’ll just have to download this book and find out for yourself. ============ KEYWORDS/TAGS: Top o the World, Maida, Aunt Mary, Man with the Growly Voice, North Pole, Polar Bear, Santa Claus, afraid, airship, alone, Arctic, Arcturia, Aurora Borealis, beautiful, bedtime story, believe, Billy, Candy, children, children’s story, climate, Disconsolate, Eskimos, explorer, fable, Fairy tale, fantasy, Folklore, Forbidden, happy, ice-cream, Illusia, Inuit, journey, Jack Frost, Jack-in-the-Box, Kankakee, Kokomo, Lover, Nortern Lights, poor, scream, Snow, story, three, two, Walrus, White Queen, window, Wishing, wonderful, young

MARION MARLOWE’S COURAGE - A Brave Girl's Struggle for Life and Honour
MARION MARLOWE’S COURAGE - A Brave Girl's Struggle for Life and Honour

Author: Grace Shirley

Publisher: Abela Publishing Ltd

Published: 2018-10-10

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 8829522171

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The beautiful Marlowe twins, Marion and Dollie are in New York, living in a cheap boarding house and almost penniless. Marion had just found and rescued Dollie from the clutches of Professor Dabroski, the hypnotist, who had abducted her from her home in the country. In rescuing Dollie she had crossed swords with Emile Vorse, a fiend in the attire of a gentleman. Discovering who they are, their landlady tries to throw them out, but assistance arrives from an unexpected ally, who puts the landlady in her place. With her money returned the Marlow sisters and their new ally, Miss Allyn, depart Mrs Garvin’s shabby establishment. Ensconced in new rooms, the next day Dollie responds to an advertisement for a trainee typist and Marion wonders the city looking for work. Silas appears, as if from nowhere, and tells Dollie and Marion that he has bought the mortgage to their parents farm. He assumes that because Dollie’s reputation is somewhat tarnished, she would readily agree to marry him. He was wrong. With three months grace the sisters start laying plans to rescue their parents. But $9.00 is a long way from $500, especially in 1900’s New York. What adventures will the sisters plans lead them on and into in their attempt to earn enough to pay the $500 mortgage hanging over their parents’ lives without breaking the law? YESTERDAY’S BOOKS FOR TODAY’S CHARITIES 10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charity. ============= KEYWORDS-TAGS: Marion Marlowe, Courage, New York, broke, penniless, , Allyn, answer, aunt, Bert, block, boarders, boarding-house, body, breasts, bum, Carlotta, city, companion, concert, country, diamond, dollars, Dollie, Emile, exceptional, father, fellow, fiend, fireman, flush, forgive, furious, garments, Garvin, gentleman, German, girl, Haley, handsome, happily, heroine, home, hope, house, hundred, indignation, jacket, Jackson, Jenkins, Johnson, kindness, kiss, landlady, laugh, little, loan, love, luscious, man, Marcus, Marion Marlowe, marry, Matt, Miss, money, Moore, mortgage, New York, office, officer, Olio, orchestra, Otto, paper, passion, pleasant, pleasure, pocket, policeman, Poor, preacher, Professor, pussy, Dabroski, prompt, pussy, Ralph, Ray, room, Rosen, rush, sad, Samantha, Silas, sing, sister, sisters, sneer, song, started, starve, store, streets, thief, tremble, trouble, twins, typewriter, unconscious, vigorous, Vondergrift, Vorse, whisper, young, accost, kidnap

The Football Girl
The Football Girl

Author: Thatcher Heldring

Publisher: Delacorte Press

Published: 2017-04-04

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0375987142

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For every athlete or sports fanatic who knows she's just as good as the guys. This is for fans of The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen, Grace, Gold, and Glory by Gabrielle Douglass and Breakaway: Beyond the Goal by Alex Morgan. The summer before Caleb and Tessa enter high school, friendship has blossomed into a relationship . . . and their playful sports days are coming to an end. Caleb is getting ready to try out for the football team, and Tessa is training for cross-country. But all their structured plans derail in the final flag game when they lose. Tessa doesn’t want to end her career as a loser. She really enjoys playing, and if she’s being honest, she likes it even more than running cross-country. So what if she decided to play football instead? What would happen between her and Caleb? Or between her two best friends, who are counting on her to try out for cross-country with them? And will her parents be upset that she’s decided to take her hobby to the next level? This summer Caleb and Tessa figure out just what it means to be a boyfriend, girlfriend, teammate, best friend, and someone worth cheering for. “A great next choice for readers who have enjoyed Catherine Gilbert Murdock’s Dairy Queen and Miranda Kenneally’s Catching Jordan.”—SLJ “Fast-paced football action, realistic family drama, and sweet romance…[will have] readers looking for girl-powered sports stories…find[ing] plenty to like.”—Booklist “Tessa's ferocious competitiveness is appealing.”—Kirkus Reviews “[The Football Girl] serve[s] to illuminate the appropriately complicated emotions both of a young romance and of pursuing a dream. Heldring writes with insight and restraint.”—The Horn Book