How does a coward become a hero? Henry Fleming is about to face that very question. Hearing the call to serve in one of our nation's greatest conflicts, the American Civil War, Henry leaves both home and family to take up the life of a Union soldier. However, though he had, ..".dreamed of battles all his life..." and ..".imagined peoples secure in the shadow of his eagle-eyed prowess..." he soon finds that the soldier's life is more than he bargained for, and a single wrong decision runs the risk of branding him a coward for what little of his life he thinks he has left. Broken pride, fear,...

"It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild." Countless men across centuries have risked certain death to tap into its unending riches. Some have lived; many more have died, but none have succeeded in mastering its endless expanse of wilderness. The wolf White Fang was born of that wilderness, but at the hands of man he will learn to become the most ruthless of killers. It would seem that his whole destiny is to hate, until the kindness of one man changes things forever. This new edition of Jack London's classic White Fang comes enhanced with great extras for the classroom,...