Mr. Hands looked up at me. “Very well, Captain Hawkins,” he said. “I’ll obey you. I have no choice.”
For a few minutes I was so busy that I almost forgot that Mr. Hands was just pretending to be badly hurt. But all of a sudden something made me turn around. He had sneaked up behind me! He pulled out the knife. Then he charged.
BY JULES UERNE
ADAPTED BY JUDITH CONAWAY
A volcano burned in the distance. Lava poured from the volcano. The red-hot rocks lit up an entire city.
For it was a city I saw there. I could see towers, palaces, houses, stores. All were lying in ruin. Beyond the city I could see what was left of a large wall.
Captain Nemo picked up a soft rock. With it he wrote on a piece of flat black stone:
ATLANTIS
by Mark Twain
Adapted by Monica Kulling
Inside was a dirt floor with weeds growing everywhere. The fireplace was crumbling, and cobwebs hung from the ceiling like curtains!
The boys climbed a rickety staircase to look upstairs. They peeked in a closet in the corner. But nothing was in it. As they turned to go back downstairs, Tom heard a noise.
The boys lay on the floor and peered through a knothole. Two men were entering the house!
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Alberto, Daisy.
Swiss family Robinson / by Johann Wyss; adapted by Daisy Alberto;
illustrated by Robert Hunt. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
“A Stepping Stone Book.”
SUMMARY: Relates the fortunes of a shipwrecked family as they imaginatively
adapt to life on an island with abundant animal and plant life.
eISBN: 978-0-307-56046-9
I. Hunt, Robert, ill. II Wyss, Johann David, 1743-1818. Schweizerische
Robinson. III. Title.
PZ7.A3217Swi 2006 [Fic]—dc22 2006001099
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