item: #1 of 10 id: 11997 author: Stables, Gordon title: Crusoes of the Frozen North date: None words: 15027 flesch: 94 summary: The boat pulled away and soon touched the ice; Tom sprang nimbly on shore, and before long he could be seen only as a little black dot on that dazzling plain of snow. poor Tom! keywords: aralia; briton; children; day; flossy; frank; night; pansy; professor; round; ship; time; tom; veevee cache: 11997.txt plain text: 11997.txt item: #2 of 10 id: 19539 author: Tracy, Louis title: The Stowaway Girl date: None words: 83258 flesch: 84 summary: That horrid old man! Go into my clerk's office, young man, an' ax Andrews to show up a copy of the ship's manifest. keywords: andromeda; ave; benavides; board; brazilian; bridge; bulmer; captain; carmela; coke; corria; course; david; day; deck; dickey; dom; ere; eyes; face; fernando; girl; good; half; hand; heart; hour; house; hozier; iris; island; know; launch; left; life; look; man; marcel; men; miss; new; night; noronha; officer; philip; place; present; president; rock; san; sea; ship; skipper; south; sylva; thing; thought; time; verity; vessel; voice; water; watts; way; woman; words; wot; yorke; young cache: 19539.txt plain text: 19539.txt item: #3 of 10 id: 40961 author: Fyfe, H. B. (Horace Bowne) title: Luna Escapade date: None words: 5142 flesch: 92 summary: [Illustration] With over an hour to go before he needed to start braking for his landing on Luna, Pete Dudley sat at the controls of the rocket freighter and tried to think of anything else that needed checking after his spinning the ship. Are we nearly there? Dudley's brown eyes opened so wide that the whites gleamed in the dim light from his instruments. keywords: dudley; fisher; kathi; luna; mars; rocket; thought cache: 40961.txt plain text: 40961.txt item: #4 of 10 id: 43420 author: Otis, James title: Off Santiago with Sampson date: None words: 21438 flesch: 75 summary: Standing with a group of _Texas_ men, Teddy and Bill Jones saw the Spaniard near the line of surf, and as their vessel's speed was checked there came a roar mightier than when the battle was first opened; the doomed ship rocked to and fro as if she had struck a sunken reef, there was an uprending of the iron decks, and then came a shower of fragments that told of the tremendous explosion within the hull of the _Oquendo_. The crew on board the good steamer _Merrimac_ had neither better nor worse quarters than those to be found on any other craft of her class; but to a lad whose experiences of seafaring life had been confined to short excursions around the harbour, this sea parlour was by no means inviting, and save for the incentive which urged him forward, Teddy Dunlap might have allowed himself to become disheartened even before it had been proven that he could take passage secretly. keywords: bill; boy; captain; come; crew; deck; father; jones; lad; man; men; merrimac; sailor; ship; steamer; teddy; texas; time; way cache: 43420.txt plain text: 43420.txt item: #5 of 10 id: 50713 author: Wollheim, Donald A. title: One Against the Moon date: None words: 51276 flesch: 87 summary: Robin slung his own helmet from his shoulder--its vision plate, being homemade, was fixed in place. Next Robin went to work on Korree's bonds and broke them off one by one. keywords: air; borck; bubble; cave; cavern; cheeky; dark; earth; eyes; feet; floor; glassies; hand; head; korree; light; man; men; monkey; moon; near; new; nose; outside; peter; robin; rocket; sands; saw; set; space; surface; thought; time; von; wall; water; way; white; work cache: 50713.txt plain text: 50713.txt item: #6 of 10 id: 51060 author: Poe, Edgar Allan title: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket Comprising the details of a mutiny and atrocious butchery on board the American brig Grampus, on her way to the South Seas, in the month of June, 1827. date: None words: 72133 flesch: 66 summary: We were now clear off, and making great way out to sea. After some trouble a certain degree of quiet was restored, when the chief addressed us in a speech of great length, and very nearly resembling the one delivered in the canoes, with the exception that the _Anamoo-moos! keywords: attempt; augustus; board; body; brig; cabin; captain; course; day; deck; difficulty; feet; good; half; head; hold; hope; islands; latitude; left; length; light; lying; manner; mate; means; men; mind; moment; peters; place; portion; purpose; sail; savages; sea; small; south; thought; time; vessel; water; way; wind cache: 51060.txt plain text: 51060.txt item: #7 of 10 id: 51150 author: Tenn, William title: Venus is a Man's World date: None words: 8097 flesch: 91 summary: I've always said that even if Sis is seven years older than me--and a girl besides--she don't always know what's best. Now you be careful, Ferdinand, Sis called after me as she opened a book called _Family Problems of the Frontier Woman_. keywords: brown; butt; earth; ferdinand; law; man; men; right; sis; venus; way cache: 51150.txt plain text: 51150.txt item: #8 of 10 id: 63032 author: Garson, Bill title: One Against the Stars date: None words: 8904 flesch: 95 summary: Would Mary want you to let Joe Wilding die? Impulsively, Joe Wilding climbed out of the cubbyhole and down the ladder. keywords: arden; bairn; black; burnet; joe; paul; room; ship; tom; water cache: 63032.txt plain text: 63032.txt item: #9 of 10 id: 63477 author: Kella, Lu title: Image of Splendor date: None words: 4978 flesch: 85 summary: An innocent child, Mr. President snapped, obviously kidnapped by those two idiotic Earthmen there! Oh, no, Grandpapa, Trillium said swiftly; I stole away all by myself, and Mr. O'Rielly and Callahan have been very helpful. Anything else now, Berta? I should like, Grandmamma President Berta said charmingly, that Mr. O'Rielly and Mr. Callahan be suitably rewarded for assisting our revolution better than they knew. keywords: burner; callahan; earth; o'rielly; president; trillium; venus; woman cache: 63477.txt plain text: 63477.txt item: #10 of 10 id: 63694 author: Hasse, Henry title: Passage to Planet X date: None words: 12905 flesch: 92 summary: But they were there, Mark knew, thousands of them; and when they came it would be silently. He faced Mark straddle-legged and snapped, Who are you? Mark Travers. keywords: brownell; donli; eyes; ferris; gravity; janus; ketrik; man; mark; men; perlacs; planet; professor; right cache: 63694.txt plain text: 63694.txt