On a beautiful spring day Pearl, the pig, is dallying in the forest when she finds a bone that talks to her. She picks it up and starts home thinking how surprised her parents will be. But she meets highway robbers and a fox; the amazing bone deals with these threats in an amazing way.

Describes life aboard a lightship, a lighthouse built on a ship and anchored out to sea, and explains what it is like to ride out a storm while doing the important job of helping bring other ships safely to port.

High-spirited Madeline may be the smallest of the twelve little girls at Miss Clavel's school, but she is by far the bravest.

Doctor De Soto treats all animals, large and small that will not be harmful to mice until a fox comes in with a toothache and needs attention.

Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and relishes the adventure which takes him to a remote temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a precious stone.

Documents the survival tale of an intrepid shorebird who has endured annual migrations between Argentina and the Canadian Arctic throughout the course of a long lifetime while his species continues to decline.

To save her ailing father from serving in the Imperial Army, a fearless young woman disguises herself as a man to battle northern invaders in China.

Omertà, the Sicilian code of silence, has been the cornerstone of the Mafia's code of honour for centuries. Born in the beautiful Sicilian hills, Omertà carried the Mafia through a century of change, but at the close of a tempestuous century it is becoming a relic from a bygone age. Honour may be silent - but money talks. In New York a mob boss is assassinated and no one will talk. His nephew and the head of the city's FBI each launch investigations...