The vivid colors of the ocean-from light-streamed blue to impenetrable black-make for a perfect subject of graphic novel storytelling. This engaging book takes readers onto the high seas to learn about harrowing and fantastic survival stories.

When Michael Walker was a child, he wished that Christmas was every day. Then one day a heartbreaking accident trampled his Christmas spirit. Thirty years goes by and he still can't bring himself to feel any joy at the holidays, even though his wife and parents try their best. When his own son faces a tragedy, he realizes he needs to make a change and get over the past. A mystery man by the name of Nick gives Michael a special gift and inspires him...

In 1987, Miri Ammerman returns to her hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey, to attend a commemoration of the worst year of her life -- when a succession of airplanes fell from the sky, leaving her community reeling.

Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet.

One of William Shakespeare's most farcical comedies, "The Comedy of Errors" is notable for its use of mistaken identity to achieve a slapstick comedic effect. Ripe with the bard's characteristic word play, the comedy concerns the lives of two sets of identical twins that were accidentally separated shortly after their birth. The play begins by the elderly Syracusian trader Egeon relating the back-story of his family. When Egeon was young, he married...

Among the 151 people who died in the crash of Flight 94 was Mick Hammon, the plane's captain and Erin Russell's close friend. A pilot herself, Erin now struggles with the shattering losses both of her friend and of her own confidence in the cockpit. With pilot error speculated as the cause of the accident, Erin fights to save Mick's reputation for the sake of the family he left behind. But that fight pits her against Addison Lowe, the crash investigator....

"Explains the Challenger Explosion, including its chronology, causes, and lasting effects"--

A True classic of twentieth-century literature, this edition of The Great Gatsby has been updated by Fitzgerald scholar James L. W. West 3 to include the author's final revision and features a note on the composition and text, a personal foreword by Fitzgerald's granddaughter, Eleanor Lanahan, and a new introduction by two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. The Great Gatsby, F. Scoot Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement...