Within each Tom Swift novel there are a couple major characters who you get to know, and a lot of secondary characters who walk in, say a few lines, and walk out. You never get the chance to know who they are other that in that context I have set about writing back stories for these people. The novels may not have the 9,000 - 15,000 words to devote to giving you a good background story about them, but these collections do. This fourth book contains stories about Ken Horton, the commander of Tom's Outpost in Space, one about the girlfriend that never was, another about Tom's sister Sandy as...

It has been a couple years since Tom Swift solved the mystery and overcame the aftermath of a loss of helium in the undersea mines he once discovered. Since then not much of anything has happened that might be considered newsworthy in Helium City. In fact, he and his friend, Bud Barclay, haven't even traveled down there in all that time. Things are about to change A deep thrumming vibration begins to make itself noticed in Helium City. As it comes and goes with no indication of its origin or meaning, Tom designs and lowers a series of probes meant to discover what is coming from deep inside...

Everyone knows Tom Swift, famous teen inventor. But, do you know his mother, Anne Swift, is one of the top molecular biological detectives in the United States? Well, did you know she secretly works special assignments for the FBI? How about that she has never told anyone in her family about her secret work? This is the first trilogy of her stories as she balances being a wife and a mother with being a crackerjack biological detective, helping to solve cases that no other lab or team can handle-or would be allowed to tackle. This volume contains the stories: Anne Swift and the Deadly Dino DNA...

Author Leo L. Levesque created an alternate world with a female Tom Swift along with a multi-universe with other Toms. His two-volume collection of the five stories may be found on Amazon.com and other locations. Author Tom Hudson couldn't leave well enough alone and so he set out to lampoon the -Tommy- stories-with Levesque's blessing. This volume contains the devastations of stories 1-3 in a matching collection to the first of Levesque's real stories. These may be read with or without reading the originals and actually contain much of the same plot.

In the early 1900s, author Peter Newell wrote tow special books for children to enjoy along with their parents. For the youngest, these were a "read to me" books. For children with a few years of experience, they could be read privately and enjoyed. Every page of story is accompanied by an illustration showing exactly what Newell pictured happening as he wrote the story. But, each book had something very special about it. For THE ROCKET BOOK, right in the middle of the text, from page to page, special pictures showed how the hole being made by the errant rocket grew and grew For THE SLANT...

This volume contains all four of the BI stories and completes the life saga of BI. As a teenage, Bobby Ingliss is a girl with a problem. Well, not so much a problem as a difference. A BIG difference. She has begun making a journal of her early teenage life, but self-edits a lot of it out, leaving us with questions, but an insight into this special girl. But, she is about to set out to find the one person who might be able to shed some light on things. The problem? The woman was her mother who abandoned her in the hospital just hours after giving birth. And, she is a homeless drifter who uses...