Catalog Search Results
1) Be a wolf!
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 1
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
When Joe and Wishbone must confront a scary neighbor who owns a big mean dog, Wishbone imagines himself as the hero Beowulf of Geatland who helps King Hrothgar rid his kingdom of the terrible monster Grendel and his equally fearsome mother.
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 7
Language
English
Description
An intrigue involving the election of class president reminds Wishbone of the twin brother of King Louis XIV of France who must decide if he should risk everything to escape his iron mask and trade it for the king's crown.
3) Salty dog
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 2
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
When he accompanies Joe and his friends to look for treasure in the condemned Trumbull barn, Wishbone imagines himself as young Jim Hawkins who acquires a treasure map and soon finds himself involved with dangerous pirates.
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 12
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Description
Wishbone imagines that he is David Balfour, the young Scottish Lowlander bound for adventure in Kidnapped, the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Author
Series
Super adventures of Wishbone volume 2
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
It's Halloween in Oakdale, and everyone is ready for the spooky festivities-everyone except Wishbone's best friend, Joe Talbot. Joe is letting his superstitions keep him from having fun.
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 9
Language
English
Description
When David enlists Joe's aid in babysitting, Wishbone escapes from his noisy home and imagines himself as Charles Darnay, a young Frenchman who, despite great danger, returns to France during the Revolution to help a friend.
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 18
Language
English
Description
When Joe's team is in the running for the basketball playoffs, Wishbone is reminded not to judge people by size as he imagines himself as the seventeenth-century traveler, Lemuel Gulliver, whose adventures included visits to Lilliput, where people are six inches tall, and Brobdingnag, a land peopled by giants.
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 19
Pub. Date
©1999
Language
English
Description
While helping Joe, Sam, and David look for an ancient Oakdale secret, Wishbone imagines that he is Allan Quartermaine, searching for legendary treasure in an unexplored part of Africa.
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 16
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
When he and his friends try to stop Oakdale's real estate developer from destroying part of the local park, Wishbone is reminded of the conflict between nature and civilization as he imagines himself as Hawkeye, the scout from James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans."
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 15
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
When Joe and David decide to use a computer to publish a sports newsletter that will outshine the one that the school produces, Wishbone is reminded of Mark Twain's story and imagines himself as Hank Morgan, a nineteenth-century American who travels back in time to King Arthur's court.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request