Author: Rodman Philbrick
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Keywords: pony, fire
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2009-01-01
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 0545088038
ISBN-13: 9780545088039

Joe Dilly has a secret way with horses--and with fire. His kid brother, Roy, knows about both secrets, but he’s not telling. Not when he and Joe hire on at the Bar None, a ranch that has a few secrets of its own. At the ranch Roy, finds a wild pony that can run like the desert wind--and if he can break that pony, he can keep her. In a thrilling scene, Roy’s dream comes true when he races the pny of his dreams. (copy continues) But as their past catches up with them, and as terrible things happen at the Bar None, Roy must face the truth about his brother. Here is a heartwrenching, p

Author: Rodman Philbrick
Publisher: Blue Sky Press
Keywords: universe, book, last
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-03-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0439087597
ISBN-13: 9780439087599

In a world where most people are plugged into brain-drain entertainment systems epileptic teenager Spaz is a rare human being who can see life for what it really is. When he meets an old man called Ryter, he begins to learn about earth and its past. With Ryter as his companion, Spaz sets off on an unlikely quest to save his dying sister ­ and in the process, perhaps the world.

Author: Rodman Philbrick
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Keywords: signature, scholastic, mighty, freak
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2001-06-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0439286069
ISBN-13: 9780439286060

A stunning young adult novel by Rodman Philbrick that tells the heartwrenching story of two ³special ed² boys who pair up to form a unique and empowering friendship. Two boys‹a slow learner stuck in the body of a teenage giant and a tiny Einstein in leg braces‹forge a unique friendship when they pair up to create one formidable human force. Made into the film, The Mighty.

Author: Rodman Philbrick
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Keywords: sea, man
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2005-05-01
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 0439368308
ISBN-13: 9780439368308

Twelve-year-old Skiff Beaman’s mom just died, and his fisherman dad is too depressed to drag himself off the couch and go to work. So these days Skiff has to take care of everything himself. But when his dad’s boat sinks, Skiff discovers it will cost thousands to buy a new engine. Skiff’s lobster traps won’t earn him enough, but there are bigger fish in the sea -- bluefin tuna. If he can catch one of those monster fish, Skiff just might save the boat -- and his family.

Author: Rodman Philbrick
Publisher: Blue Sky Press
Keywords: world, rem
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2002-03-01
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 043908363X
ISBN-13: 9780439083638

Arthur Woodbury is tired of being called fat. So he¹s purchased a special product that is supposed to help him lose weight. But when he puts on the helmet like the instructions say, his world vanishes before his eyes. Now he is trapped in REM World, a place where nothing is as it seems. And it¹s not enough just to find his way home. By entering REM World, Arthur accidentally released a terrible creature called Nothing and it¹s now up to Arthur to save the world!

Author: Rodman Philbrick
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Keywords: mighty, max
Number of Pages: 166
Published: 1998-10-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0590579649
ISBN-13: 9780590579643

This is the dramatic, heartwrenching tale of Max and Worm, two outsiders who turn to each other for survival. Written in a haunting yet uplifting first-person voice, this compelling novel is destined to become a classic.

Author: Nathaniel Philbrick
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: war, community, courage, story, mayflower
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2007-04-24
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0143111973
ISBN-13: 9780143111979

Nathaniel Philbrick became an internationally renowned author with his National Book Award– winning In the Heart of the Sea, hailed as "spellbinding" by Time magazine. In Mayflower, Philbrick casts his spell once again, giving us a fresh and extraordinarily vivid account of our most sacred national myth: the voyage of the Mayflower and the settlement of Plymouth Colony. From the Mayflower’s arduous Atlantic crossing to the eruption of King Philip’s War between colonists and natives decades later, Philbrick reveals in this electrifying history of the Pilgrims a fifty-five-year epic, at once