High school senior Ken Ward is on top of the world--he's popular, a somebody. But as a freshman at Wayne University, Ken quickly discovers he's a nobody who's treated like dirt by upperclassmen. When Ken can't stand the harassment anymore, he bursts out of his gloom by slugging a sophomore bully--who turns out to be captain of the varsity baseball team. It looks as if Ken's dream of making that team has gone down the drain ... until in a moment of wild excitement he proves himself with, of all things, a potato! And Ken keeps on proving himself until the last out of a heart-pounding.

The Book of Khalid (1911) is a novel by Arab-American writer Ameen Rihani. Composed during a sojourn in the mountains of Lebanon, it is considered to be the first novel by an Arab-American writer in English. His contemporary, Khalil Gibran, illustrated the work, and the story is often seen as an influence on Gibran's own well-known book The Prophet. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

When a young lady from a land boom syndicate tries to enlist Andy Green's help in a scheme to lure settlers to Montana, he isn't interested- - until he learns that the land selected was part of the Flying U Ranch. Andy quickly sets off to tell Chip Bennett and the rest of the Happy Family at the Flying U about the insidious plot that could sound the death knell for the Flying U. This exhilarating episode joins the family and friends of the Flying U Ranch as they make an end-run around land-grabbers, while dealing with a stampede, a prairie fire, and the disappearance of Chip Bennet's six-year-old son.

"This is the exciting story of Ree Kingdom and John Jerome, two courageous lads who start out from their Connecticut homes in 1790 on a perilous trip through the forests to live with the Indians in the Ohio River Valley, and trade with them. The journey is packed with unusual adventures, and not a little danger. When they finally reach the chosen territory, the veteran frontiersman, Tom Fish, helps them to find suitable location for a cabin near a Delaware village. Fishing Bird whose life Ree saves, becomes a staunch and loyal friend to the youthful pioneers, and in turn he saves the lives of young "Long Knives," as the Indian call Ree and John"--Jacket.