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Books in the American genre:

The Will to Win (2005)

A collection of short stories by a master, many of which deal with high school sports.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): John Gincano

Away to Sea (2006)

Jim Slater ran away from his father’s farmhouse to become a sailor. Later, he discovered he was aboard a slave ship.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Clinton Balmer

Behind the Ranges (2006)

Seventeen year old Dick goes with his botanist father on a trip high into the Olympic mountains. But Dick is taken captive by a stranger.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Edward Shenton

A Blow for Liberty (2006)

Sixteen-year-old Jed Starbuck of Nantucket joins the crew of “The True Patriot” to fight the British at sea during the Revolutionary War.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Victor Mays

The Buckboard Stranger (2006)

When a smooth-talking stranger with a fast rig comes to town, Chuck and Barney are in for a summer of mystery and excitement.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Paul Calle

The Cape May Packet (2006)

When British war ships cut off shipping during the War of 1812, Will Hand and his father convert their packet ship to a privateer.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Robert Frankenberg

Cedar’s Boy (2006)

Shad Davis gets caught up in the excitement of harness racing and finds he has a talent for driving.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Lee Townsend

Clear for Action! (2006)

In 1912 Jeff Robbins is pressed into service with the British Navy. His subsequent adventures aboard a man-o-war and escape make for a thrilling sea story.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Frank Beaudouin

The Commodore’s Cup (2006)

Luke Cramer loves to sail and when he chances on a wrecked Comet class sailboat he leaps at the chance to fix it up and sail it in the local fleet.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Don Sibley

E. C. Segar’s Popeye Volume 1 (2006)

This volume reprints the Thimble Theater dailies and color Sunday strips from 1928 to 1930. Popeye the Sailor appeared for the first time in the daily strip on January 17, 1929.

Author(s): E. C. Segar
Illustrator(s): E. C. Segar

Everglades Adventure (2006)

Toby Morgan and his family move to Florida after the Civil War where he becomes a swamp rat and discovers a reclusive Indian tribe.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Charles Beck

The Fish Hawk’s Nest (2006)

Andy Corson goes to count the cattle on Leaming’s Island, Cape May, New Jersey and discovers a crew of smugglers has been at work on the island.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Edward Shenton

Guns for the Saratoga (2006)

Gideon Jones helps his father cast guns for the American Navy’s new sloop-of-war, then decides to join her crew to fight the British.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): John O’Hara Cosgrave, II

Keep ’Em Rolling (2006)

Dave Marsh and his family make the long trek to Oregon behind a team of oxen.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Al Savitt

King of the Hills (2006)

Breck Townsend went to New Hampshire to photograph the biggest buck and found himself tangling with a gang of poachers.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Lee Townsend

The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Companion (2006)

This collection includes new stories that fit into the timeline of The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck.

Author(s): Don Rosa
Illustrator(s): Don Rosa

A Little House Traveler Writings from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Journeys Across America (2006)

This is an anthology containing On the Way Home, West from Home and The Road Back Home, the story of Laura and Manly’s return to South Dakota in 1931.

Author(s): Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s): Photographs

Little Lulu Color Special (2006)

A special all-color edition containing selected stories from John Stanley’s masterpiece.

Little Lulu Volume 10 (2006)

The tenth volume in a black-and-white reprint of the John Stanley Little Lulu comics contains issues 38-42.

Little Lulu Volume 11 (2006)

The eleventh volume in a black-and-white reprint of the John Stanley Little Lulu comics contains issues 43-48.

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