Charles Turner

"The double kidnapping of the daughter of a famous Hollywood actress and the young son of the Secretary of the Treasury is only the beginning! Gary Soneji is a murderous serial kidnapper who wants to commit the crime of the century. Alex Cross is the brilliant homicide detective pitted against him. Jezzie Flanagan is the female supervisor of the Secret Service who completes one of the most unusual suspense triangles in any thriller you have ever read"--Publisher....

A brief biography of Baptist minister and civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.

The snowy day: A city snowfall has a boy making snow angels, snowballs, sliding down snow mountains - and looking forward to going outside again. Apt. 3: The sounds of a harmonica lead to an understanding between a blind man and two boys who live in the same building in the city. Goggles!: Peter and his friend call upon a faithful dog to outsmart a gang of bullies who want Peter's motorcycle goggles. Whistle for Willie: For Peter, learning to whistle...

A biography of the man who, after escaping slavery, became an orator, writer, and leader in the abolitionist movement in the nineteenth century.

To escape an abusive master, a junkyard dog named Flats runs away and makes a name for himself from Mississippi to New York City playing blues on his guitar.

The adventures of a little boy in the city on a very snowy day. Other stories add to the collection.

A brief, illustrated, biography of the Baptist minister and civil rights leader whose philosophy and practice of nonviolent civil disobedience helped American blacks win many battles for equal rights.

A collection of Halloween stories.

Keats begins abruptly with Louie, lonely in a drab new home, unaccountably constructing a peepshow city in a shoebox. But this combination of collage and childlike drawing does make an enticing, dreamlike background for Louie's imagined trip back to the old neighborhood. While there, Louie runs into a group of strange monsters who turn out to be his old friends in imaginative Halloween disguise; and their friendly cries of "Trick or treat, " while...