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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.
2) Moby Dog
Author
Language
English
Description
While pursuing the stranger who ran off with Joe's basketball, Wishbone imagines himself to be the young sailor Ishmael on Captain Ahab's whaling ship chasing the great white whale, Moby Dick, across the seven seas.
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
Wishbone mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
When they help restore the Skeleton Reef Lighthouse for the Oakland Historical Society, Joe and Wishbone discover that the lighthouse holds the key to incredible treasure and to some dark and dangerous secrets.
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.
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.
11) Curse of gold
Author
Series
Wishbone adventures volume 1
Pub. Date
©2000
Language
English
Description
Joe's decision to start a grocery delivery business to make a lot of money causes Wishbone to imagine himself as King Midas, whose fondest wish is to have the golden touch.
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.
13) Don Quixote
Author
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Retells Cervantes' story of the adventures of an eccentric Spanish country gentleman and his companion who set out as a knight and squire of old to right wrongs and punish evil.
Author
Series
Wishbone classics volume 6
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Recounts the life and adventures of Robin Hood, who, with his band of followers, lived in Sherwood Forest as an outlaw dedicated to fighting tyranny.
16) Odyssey
Author
Series
Wishbone classics volume 2
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
A retelling of Homer's epic that describes the adventures of the hero Odysseus as he encounters many monsters and other obstacles on his journey home from the Trojan War.
Author
Series
Wishbone the early years volume 1
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
When Wishbone returns to find the ball he accidentally left in Joe's third grade classroom and must face a big, scary custodian, he imagines himself as Jack, the boy who met a real giant.
18) 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.
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