Excerpts from classic stories for children relate the adventures of Pinocchio, Peter Pan, King Arthur, Anne of Green Gables, Mowgli, Tom Sawyer, and other heroes and heroines.
On a cold, miserable night in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a night that wouldn’t feel so unusual if it wasn’t the Fourth of July, an antique wooden boat runs full-speed into a line of old railroad pilings in the shallow waters of Waishkey Bay. When Alex McKnight helps rescue the passengers, he finds three men. The driver is out cold, the other two are dazed but conscious. When they’re all finally back on dry land and sent...