Counter George is fascinated by his family's legacy, the stories that link his ancestors to the infamous pirate Captain Kidd. But for 12 years, everyone has told him the stories are rumors. Now George has discovered the truth. And the truth is hidden in the web of tunnels mysteriously dug underneath his house in Manhattan. There are secrets to be revealed, friendships to be tested, and ancient injustices to be set right.George and his friends will sink deep underground to a secret city in search of treasure, but they'll find they aren't the only ones looking for it - and there's much more at stake.

A teenage boy accompanies his father, who has recently escaped from prison, on a trip that turns out to be an, often painful, time of discovery for them both

Belle Teal Harper is from a poor family in the country and beginning fifth-grade is a challenge as her grandmother’s memory is slipping away and her brother and father are fighting again.

The book tells the biographical story of one of the brightest fighters for rights of African Americans in 20th century - Malcolm X

The course is aimed at familiarizing with the key provisions of the theory of international relations as part of the social sciences and as an analytical tool, paying special attention to the problems of war and peace, foreign policy decision-making, combines a historical approach and analysis, modern political problems

With their wit, honesty, abundance, imaginative breadth and prosodic grace - some of Bishop`s effects can be as subtle as Herbert`s or Hopkin`s thirty ot forty of the poems in this book seem to me as valuable as any written in English since the last war

This inspiring collection pays tribute to baseball legend and civil rights hero Jackie Robinson. It is biographical story about Jackie Robinson.

There are 150 Sunday crosswords from The New York Times. It helps us to enlarge and develop our outlook

It is sterling example of a brazen genre - the novel that burrows inside another novel, borrowing some of its characters and situations but, in this uncommon case, returning to the host book a livelines that age and fashion has sapped

Presents speeches by various African American religious and political leaders from the days of slavery to the present, along with biographical information and historical background