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It takes a lot of positive thinking for Bravo Bear and the Coach to turn the basketball team around - especially when they lose one of their best players! Will their hard work and positive attitude pay off? Bravo Bear certainly hopes so!

Will Bravo Bear make the tennis team? Not until he has a match with a better player, listens to his coach, and turns a losing attitude into a winning one!

When Bravo Bear, Penny, and Rascal get stuck on a ski lift at Gold Mountain, thinking positively really pays off for the three friends!

When Cousin Jackie comes to town for a visit, Bravo Bear feels a little shy and funny about meeting her - especially because of the way she dresses. Will Bravo Bear learn to appreciate Cousin Jackie for who she is instead of how she looks?

Bravo Bear's search for treasure takes him inside a spooky cave with his grandparents. Will Bravo Bear give in to his fear of bats and ghosts or keep going to achieve his goal of finding the treasure?

Bravo Bear and Penny love the big new waterslide at the pool, but can they figure out a way to get Rascal to find the courage to try it?

Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of Jules Verne-esque adventure stories. In the story, Tom, Huck, and Jim set sail to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon, where they survive encounters with lions, robbers, and fleas to see some of the world's greatest wonders, including the Pyramids and the Sphinx. Like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, Detective, the story is told using the first-person narrative voice of Huck Finn.

At the beginning of Pudd'nhead Wilson a young slave woman, fearing for her infant's son's life, exchanges her light-skinned child with her master's. From this rather simple premise Mark Twain fashioned one of his most entertaining, funny, yet biting novels. On its surface, Pudd'nhead Wilson possesses all the elements of an engrossing nineteenth-century mystery: reversed identities, a horrible crime, an eccentric detective, a suspenseful courtroom drama, and a surprising, unusual solution. Yet it is not a mystery novel.

"A Horse's Tale" (1907) is a novel by Mark Twain, written against bullfighting. A classic humorous tale as told from the point of view of horse in the wild, wild west. "I am Buffalo Bill's horse. I have spent my life under his saddle - with him in it, too, and he is good for two hundred pounds, without his clothes; and there is no telling how much he does weigh when he is out on the war-path and has his batteries belted on. I am his favorite horse, out of dozens.

"The American Claimant is enormous fun. I'm here to celebrate the mad energy of this strange novel. In it we have the pleasure of seeing Mark Twain's imagination go berserk," writes Bobbie Ann Mason in her introduction. The American Claimant is a comedy of mistaken identities and multiple role switches-fertile and familiar Mark Twain territory. Its cast of characters include an American enamored of British hereditary aristocracy and a British earl entranced by American democracy. The central character, Colonel Mulberry Sellers, is an irrepressible, buoyant mad scientist, Mason writes.

The story takes place in Victorian London, where two very rich, eccentric brothers give the penniless story protagonist, Henry Adams, one million pounds of money in the form of a single peerless bank note. Henry would not be easily able to exchange that note in the bank without being questioned about how he had come to it, charged with theft and arrested. He would also not be able to spend it since no ordinary person would be able to change it.

This treasured historical satire, played out in two very different socioeconomic worlds of 16th-century England, centers around the lives of two boys born in London on the same day: Edward, Prince of Wales and Tom Canty, a street beggar. During a chance encounter, the two realize they are identical and, as a lark, decide to exchange clothes and roles--a situation that briefly, but drastically, alters the lives of both youngsters.

Father Luke, a trained exorcist, uncovers sacred knowledge hidden in time while removing demons from the innocent. These truths put his own life and the lives of those he cares about in grave danger from every direction. Based near Washington, DC, where greed and deception are around every corner, lie these dangerous secrets, ones that threaten the very fabric of our human world.

The Mission: Discover who was leaking classified information from within the most elite of military command posts, the Joint Special Operations Command Center, JSOC. His Problem: The clues all point to the one person in the world that could make him feel like a rookie again, his ex-fiancé Veronica. Will their dormant passion reignite their love for each other and help them fight the enemy in their midst? Or will love, lead them to make the most cardinal sin any military operator could?