From his decision to leave school at fifteen to roam the world, to his recollections of life as a hobo on the Southern Pacific Railroad, as a cattle skinner in Texas, as a merchant seaman in Singapore and the West Indies, and as an itinerant bare-knuckled prizefighter across small-town America, here is Louis L'Amour's memoir of his lifelong love affair with learning--from books, from wandering, and from some remarkable men and women--that shaped him...

Profiles more than 160 breeds of dogs with comparative charts on traits and characteristics.

Collette Murphy has to go with her large, often trying family to a small island and start sixth grade there as the new girl in school.