Nathaniel Benchley

An easy-to-read account of Sam and his father fighting as minutemen against the British in the Battle of Lexington.

A view of the incidents at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, which were the start of the American Revolution, as seen from the eyes of George, a British drummer boy.

A young Native American boy sets out to hunt on Manhattan Island and discovers some strange people with white faces and very different ideas about land.

A young Indian boy receives a larger canoe along with some unforeseen complications.

Edgar was a clever young dolphin but he didn't like to play his games in a small tank on the ship where he was captive.

Robert C. Benchley's sketches and articles, published in periodicals like "Life," "Vanity Fair," and "The New Yorker," earned him a reputation as one of the sharpest humorists of his time; his influence--on contemporaries such as E.B. White, James Thurber, and S.J. Perelman, or followers like Woody Allen, Steve Martin, and Richard Pryor--has left an indelible mark on the American comic tradition. "The Benchley Roundup "collects those pieces, selected...

The ambience of eleventh-century Scandinavian life is portrayed through the eyes of an adventurous youth who travels to Vinland with Leif Eriksson.