Provides guidance for raising male children, covering male biology, what boys need from their mothers and fathers, the importance of a "tribe," the passage into manhood, and how to teach boys about discipline, values, morality, spirituality, sex, and love.

In Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically inventive slang that evocatively renders his and his friends' intense reaction against their society. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom. This edition includes the controversial...

The classic story of a boy's journey to manhood under the joys and hardships of ranch life.

Teenage detectives, Frank and Joe Hardy investigate a supposedly haunted house reported to be the hangout of criminals.

Freelance writer Troy Chance sees a young boy fall from a ferry boat on Lake Champlain, and after discovering that the fall was not an accident, takes it upon herself to protect the boy and seek justice.

While hiding in a graveyard, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn witness a murder. Except for the killer himself, only they know who committed the deed. Terrified of the killer, Tom and Huck take an oath of secrecy. But their consciences bother them when an innocent man is accused of the crime and jailed. Will Tom and Huck speak out to save the innocent man from hanging? The murderer, meanwhile, remains at large, filling their sleep with nightmares. A...

Joe and Frank suspect there is a link between the counterfeiting case they are investigating, and the case their father can't discuss. Determined to learn the secret, the Hardy Boys get themselves into a scrape.

Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson moves with his father from Spokane, Washington, to Portland, Oregon, and when his father is killed in a mishap involving a married secretary, Charlie finds himself seeking refuge at a horse track, where he befriends a racehorse and embarks on a dangerous trek to find his aunt in Wyoming.

When twelve-year-old Nick runs away from his uncle's in the middle of a blizzard, he stumbles onto a very opinionated bookstore. He also meets its guardian, the self-proclaimed Evil Wizard Smallbone, who calls Nick his apprentice and won't let him leave, but won't teach him magic, either. It's a good thing the bookstore takes Nick's magical education in hand, because Smallbone's nemesis--the Evil Wizard Fidelou--and his pack of shape-shifting bikers...

Based in part on the author's schooldays at Lancing and then Hertford College in England and subsequently as a teacher in North Wales, "Decline and Fall" is Evelyn Waugh's debut novel, first published in 1928. In the socially satirical style for which the author is known, Waugh brilliantly lampoons British society of the 1920s. The story tracks the life of Paul Pennyfeather, who following expulsion from Oxford, the result of a drunken prank, is forced...